Return of the minimal pairs

Wed May 23 13:49:58 UTC 2001

At 01:58 PM 5/20/01 -0400, Paul S. Cohen wrote:
>whether consciously or unconsciously.  An example that I am very familiar
>with concerns the tensing and raising of [ae] (that is "ash") in the New
>York City area. ...

>Anyhow, one phoneme or two?  You be the judge.

Sound like two to me.  It is used by itself to carry differences in meaning.

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