Updates regarding UPenn tree
A. McMahon
amm11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Wed Oct 6 09:51:19 UTC 1999
Yes; just to expand, hw > f is common in Aberdeenshire (North-Eastern)
Scots, in words like 'what', 'which' - and I think it can show up as a
bilabial fricative as well as the more common labiodental.
April McMahon
Department of Linguistics / Selwyn College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:
> /hw/ > /f/ does happen in a Scottish dialect of English
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