[Ads-l] Pronunciation of Appalachia
Herbert F. Stahlke
hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 25 15:21:43 UTC 2020
I grew up in Michigan with the tense vowel and the fricative for all forms and uses. A student from Appalatcha corrected me in class sometime back in the 80's.
Herb
On November 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Joe Salmons <000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
Thanks … that makes sense.
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Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 6:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Pronunciation of Appalachia
Same for me. I remember specifically that Copland’s ballet/suite was always “Appa-LEY-chin” Spring when I was in school, but the region is always “Appa-LATCH-a”, not “Appa-LEY-cha”, especially since I got into dialectology. I suspect the Copland suite and the trail are still “Appa-LEY-chin” for me, but it’s definitely “Appa-LATCH-an” English.
LH
> On Nov 24, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Gordon, Matthew J. <GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:
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> I'm not from the region, and I know that my pronunciation of it has changed. That change has been prompted by hearing people from the region insist on using the /æ/ pronunciation. Perhaps your colleague was talking about the spread of this pronunciation beyond the region.
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> Matt
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> On 11/24/20, 4:33 PM, "American Dialect Society on behalf of Joe Salmons" <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU on behalf of 000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> Thanks! It’s been /æ/ in the region since I was a kid in the 60s. I’m wondering why he thinks it’s spreading recently.
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 4:26 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of Appalachia
> I don't know what the time frame is meant to be, but when I came there in
> 1974, /ae/ was already universal.
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> My /ei/ was mocked.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:54 PM Joe Salmons <
> 000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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>> A colleague – non-linguist – mentioned today that he thinks the
>> pronunciation of ‘Appalachian’ has changed over time, namely toward having
>> /æ/. Does anybody know of data on this? It’s obviously variable with a
>> regional piece to the variation, but I don’t know about diachronic change
>> here.
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
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