query about dialect marker

[Harriet Ottenheimer]

One of my favorite videos. 
If this guy sounded like that it would be easy.
Harriet

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Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>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
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>> >>> something else entirely?
>> >>>
>> >>> all best,
>> >>>
>> >>> Leila
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>Department of Anthropology
>University of Wyoming
>Laramie, Wyoming