13.256, Qs: Ventriloquists/Labial Consonants, Tense/Lax /i/

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Subject: 13.256, Qs: Ventriloquists/Labial Consonants, Tense/Lax /i/

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1)
Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:43:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Carol L. Tenny" <tenny at linguist.org>
Subject:  ventriloquists and labial consonants

2)
Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:49:11 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Carol L. Tenny" <tenny at linguist.org>
Subject:  tense and lax i

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:43:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Carol L. Tenny" <tenny at linguist.org>
Subject:  ventriloquists and labial consonants


One of my students in my intro linguistics class asked today, as we were
finishing up phonetics, how ventriloquists make labial consonants without
moving their lips ???
I love my intro students, they ask such great questions.

Anybody have any idea?

Carol Tenny



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Date:  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:49:11 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Carol L. Tenny" <tenny at linguist.org>
Subject:  tense and lax i


I discovered to my surprise today that my Intro Linguistics students
overwhelmingly pronounce the vowel in the second syllable of words like
"lining" and "something" with a lax i (like in "pill"), while I always
pronounced it with a tense i, like in "ring". Is there some dialectal
variation I don't know about here? or am I crazy?

Of course this is Pittsburgh where the lax i has many conquests, where
"Steeler" is pronounced like "still" rather than "kneel". But they weren't
all Pittsburghers.

I would welcome any insights.

Carol Tenny


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