Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times

[Herb Stahlke]

Wearing two phthongs each?


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> I like "diphthongery" -- it evokes an image of the real housewives of
> New Jersey having a summer-time chat on a south shore beach.
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> Joel
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> At 3/2/2014 07:45 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html
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> >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.
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> >LH
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