14.3368, Disc: New: RE: Media: NYT: Texas Accent

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-3368. Sun Dec 7 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.3368, Disc: New: RE: Media: NYT: Texas Accent

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Date:  Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:56:35 -0600
From:  Jack Hall <jhall at uh.edu>
Subject:  Re: 14.3301, Media: NYT: Texas Accent

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Date:  Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:56:35 -0600
From:  Jack Hall <jhall at uh.edu>
Subject:  Re: 14.3301, Media: NYT: Texas Accent


This NYT story perpetuates the common and totally false phonetic
transcription of the vocalic in "ride" as "ah." That would mean that
word rhymes with "rod", which it certainly does not. Does anybody know
if there is an internationally (or widely) accepted transcription of
that vowel in the speech of most southerners in the United States? It
is a monophthong and occurs before voiced sounds and before nothing,
in contrast to the diphthong [ai] which occurs before voiceless
sounds. It occurs in "ride" and "rhyme" and "rye", whereas the
diphthong occurs in "right" and "rice."

Jack

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