"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/25/2012 08:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 1/25/2012 10:38 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote:
> >> Not to mention 'as you know...', 'where's your father' and similar.
> >> Of course they're probably not *underlying* /zh/, but they're
> >> certainly produced with voiced palato-alveolar fricatives all the time.
> >
> > Not by me -- neither all the time or ever, I think -- at least for
> > the latter.  (For example, "where's your" sounds different to me from
> > "azure" when I say them.)  But I've been called pretentious here.
> >
>as in "I'm not speaking azure pal, I'm speaking azure dad"?

Larry has found a minimal pair!  ...  for me.  To be contrasted with
"I'm not speaking as your pal/dad".  I think -- if I'm not biasing myself.

Joel


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