Raleigh, N.C. -- awesome or aw-dropping?

[Paul Johnston]

Yes, that's just the more shifted variant; my vowel shift hasn't gone that far, though I probably do have [U@] as a minority form.  Suburb kid, after all.

Paul
On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

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> On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
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>> No, that'd be a [roUli poUli}.  The [o] in Paulie is centralized and the first half of a diphthong.  If I'm on my best behavior, it's [pO(:)li} but I usually have something of a New York city vowel shift.  Just not as advanced as Fran Drescher's or Cyndi Lauper's.
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> Doesn't that go more toward the [u@]?  I'm thinking of the shibboleth NYC pronunciation of "coffee" as, approximately, COO-uh-fee.
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>> On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:19 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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