query about dialect marker

[Leila Monaghan]

To get a comparison, you might want to listen to the two Boston Brahmins in
American Tongues for what the original version of that accent sounds like.

all best, Leila

On Thursday, September 13, 2012, Woolard, Kathryn wrote:

> You may be able to add Yale undergrads to that category; suggested on
> basis of one speaker raised in L.A. who went to Yale and has this feature.
>
> Kit Woolard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: galey modan <gmodan at GMAIL.COM <javascript:;>>
> Reply-To: galey modan <gmodan at GMAIL.COM <javascript:;>>
> Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:26 PM
> To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <javascript:;>"
> <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <javascript:;>>
> Subject: Re: query about dialect marker
>
> >In my experience, this seems to be a feature of the idiolect of certain
> >people *not* from Massachusetts who went to Harvard as undergrads.
> >Seriously, I've met a number of people with this background who have no
> >other eastern Mass features and in fact have features of other dialects
> >(like, for example, the dialect where they're actually from) but say
> >rahther and cahn't. All academics, for what it's worth. (It *is* a feature
> >of older versions of a Boston dialect, perhaps eastern New England in
> >general, but I'll leave that detail to the dialectologists.)
> >
> >Galey Modan
> >
> >2012/9/13 Harriet Ottenheimer <mahafan at ksu.edu <javascript:;>>
> >
> >> On a different matter, I am trying to pin down the most likely
> >> geographical provenance of the "rather/rahther" distinction in American
> >> English (apologies for the "spelling").
> >>
> >> Specifically, I am trying to find out where in the U.S. a person might
> >> hail from if he/she regularly pronounces "rather" the same way most
> >> Americans pronounce "father" or "bother," with a low central [a] and not
> >> with a front mid [ae].
> >>
> >> Can anyone help? The person in question exhibits no other evidence of
> >> having any regional accent AT ALL.
> >>
> >> Harriet Ottenheimer
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/13/2012 2:01 PM, Leila Monaghan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> A colleague has an interesting language related project on Kickstarter.
> >>>   What is the consensus of the list about people mentioning these
> >>>projects
> >>> on the list?  Is this considered spam, useful sharing of information,
> >>> something else entirely?
> >>>
> >>> all best,
> >>>
> >>> Leila
> >>>
> >>>
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-- 
Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming