Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html

Mostly concerned with phonology, especially vowels, which are somewhat randomly described.  (Apparently the pronuncation of "soda" as "sewda" involves rounding.  Hard to believe.)  But positive "anymore" makes a couple of appearances.

LH

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