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- Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:58 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
Some people here have restored /ju/, or shall I say, [i̯ʉ] or even [i̯y] in words like new and stupid through fronting and breaking of /u/ after a coronal. This would then presumably include also words like too , do , noose ? Fronting of /u/ occurs after all coronals, and breaking, with or without ...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
How does this relate to the situation in NAE, which unlike English English does not appear to have undergone processes you mention? Yet at the same time almost all the <h> words here have /h/ and take a not an , aside from herb and sometimes homage (and I don't mean just the Frenchy loan-pronunciati...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
I was thinking yesterday about my pronunciation of Birne , which in Standard German is something like [bɪɐ̯nə]. Since it's weird for me to have a diphthong beginning with [ɪ] I used to raise this to [ i ] or lower it to [e]. I didn't think about what I was doing until my acting teacher in Germany g...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
- Views: 540795
Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
Some people here have restored /ju/, or shall I say, [i̯ʉ] or even [i̯y] in words like new and stupid through fronting and breaking of /u/ after a coronal.
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
- Replies: 805
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
I used to pronounce velar as [ˈvɜːɰʁ̩(ː)].
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:41 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
fracas : [ˈfʁʷɛkɘs] isle : [a(ː)ɯ̯], carefully [ˈaːjɯ(ː)] vile : [va(ː)ɯ̯], carefully [ˈvaːjɯ(ː)] vial : [va(ː)ɯ̯], carefully [ˈvaːjɯ(ː)] I'll : [a(ː)ɤ̯] mile : [ma(ː)ɤ̯], carefully [ma(ː)ɯ̯] we'll : [wʊ(ː)], carefully [wi(ː)ɯ̯] (I should note that the [a] in [a(ː)ɯ̯] and [ˈaːjɯ(ː)] is quite fronte...
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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- Views: 4935803
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
bulletin: [ˈpʊːɰɘˌtʰɘ̃(ː)(n)]~[ˈpʊːwɘˌtʰɘ̃(ː)(n)]
hall: [hɒ(ː)o̯]
hall: [hɒ(ː)o̯]
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
* the northern Mid-Atlantic split isn't present in MD, but [æj eə] contrast before /nk ng/; so either /eə/ is marginally phonemic, /æj/ is marginally phonemic, or /nk ng/ contrast with /ŋk ŋ(g)/. What are some examples showing the contrast? I presume that normally TRAP and BATH are [eə] before /n/ ...
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935803
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
nightingale: [ˈnəe̯ʔŋ̍ːˌɡe(ː)ɯ̯]
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:56 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
pampas: [ˈpʰãpəs]
pompous: [ˈpʰãpəs]
pampers: [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːs], before vowels or semivowels [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːz]
pompous: [ˈpʰãpəs]
pampers: [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːs], before vowels or semivowels [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːz]
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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- Views: 4935803
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
For me they are quite distinct, as warm [wɔ̃(ː)ʁ̃ʷm] and worm [wʁ̩̃ʷ(ː)m].
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:02 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
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Re: Happy things thread!
I am really happy with the progress of Attoforth . I just got exception handling and thread-local variables working and have been reworking a good amount of functionality to move things out of the core runtime and into the Forth library. I had already gotten a lot of Readline-like functionality work...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:44 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Zero-derivation of intransitives in ergative languages
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5437
Re: Zero-derivation of intransitives in ergative languages
The key question is that borrowed or coined words by default have both transitive and intransitive usages in a consistent fashion; if yes, then this is zero derivation, if no, then there is a closed set of ambitransitive words.
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935803
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:30 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
I normally stress the second syllable of TV.
- Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:19 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4935803
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:10 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
[ˈɘ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ], or when speaking somewhat carefullly, [ˈɘ̃ɾ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ]
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:00 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
I've never heard of that usage either. If I was talking about people from Phoenix, I would say "people from Phoenix" "Phoenixers" is what occurs to me. (Other cities I would use -er with include New York, Newark, Pittsburgh, Oakland, and Cleveland. Overall -an is common enough I...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:28 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
It wouldn't have occured to me to pronounce either 'Phoenix' or 'Phoenician' with /o/, as the spelling so clearly indicates /i/. Do Americans really say /fonIks/ (for the bird or the city (or the person)), or do you just have the /o/ in the adjective form? Personally, I have /fi:'ni:Sn/, phonemical...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
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Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Considering that /ə/ and /oʊ/ commonly alternate, where the former is an unstressed counterpart to the latter, it would not surprise me if people pronounced Phoenician as both /fəˈniːʃən/ and /foʊˈniːʃən/; indeed, I myself use both pronunciations, depending on the exact degree to which I stress the ...