LL-L: "Phonology" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 03.SEP.1999 (01)

[Sandy Fleming]

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From: Ruud Harmsen [rharmsen at knoware.nl]
Subject: "Phonology"

>From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
>Subject: "Phonology"
>
>I think it was Henno who mentioned the Irish habit of breaking vowels -
>adding a schwa. The principal differentiating feature of northern Irish
>accents (to my ear, at least) is splitting diphthongs: "now" pronounced
>something like "na-oo", for example. I am not sure if "breaking" and
>"splitting" are the right terms here, and I would welcome an
authoritative
>terminology.

I think the Northern-Ireland "now" sounds so remarkably because the
second element is very central, almost front like the u in French
"lune".
Incidentally, I think NI "now" is very much like Australian "no".
See also (the left frame panel of):
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~rharmsen/articles/fonetics/fonetfrm.htm
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Ruud Harmsen - http://utopia.knoware.nl/~rharmsen/

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