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hall: [hɒ(ː)o̯]

* 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/ ...

nightingale: [ˈnəe̯ʔŋ̍ːˌɡe(ː)ɯ̯]

pampas: [ˈpʰãpəs]
pompous: [ˈpʰãpəs]
pampers: [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːs], before vowels or semivowels [ˈpʰɛ̃pʁ̩ːz]

For me they are quite distinct, as warm [wɔ̃(ː)ʁ̃ʷm] and worm [wʁ̩̃ʷ(ː)m].

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...

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.

[pʌs]

I normally stress the second syllable of TV.

dhok wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:19 am ['ɪ̃nɨˌnɛʔ] internet

(careful speech: ['ɪ̃ntəˌnɛt̚ʔ])

I didn't know you were non-rhotic - and this isn't one of those cases where one rhotic is dropped because there's another rhotic in the same word.

[ˈɘ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ], or when speaking somewhat carefullly, [ˈɘ̃ɾ̃ʁ̩̃ˌnɜʔ]

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...

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...

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 ...

I nominate "synergy" for the very worst word in the English language.

I pronounce initial /ð/ as either a dentialveolar [t̪] (without aspiration), an interdental [ð] (particularly after vowels, as in of the , which is always pronounced with an interdental [ð]), or a dentialveolar [n̪] (after nasals); otherwise /ð/ is an interdental [ð] or, if under conditions where ob...

I prefer not to use SCAs but rather to simply apply sound changes from memory. In the case of some of my languages, such as the Tshyak languages, the phonologies are manageable for me without needing an SCA. In the Laqar languages, on the other hand, there is quite elaborate sound change, but using ...

I've never heard of "druck store"; I pronounce drug store with [k], but druck store to me indicates /k/, i.e. a short vowel with preglottalization, whereas drug store for me has a long vowel with no preglottalization, i.e. it has /g/.

I am really happy with how Attoforth is coming along. I now have a working File-Access API (well, working as far as the parts I have tested) and Wordlist API, and I have some basic concurrency primitives, namely locks and condition variables, working. It still has a ways to go, but it is nice to hav...

Another good example is the pronunciation of high school in NAE dialects with Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ where the vowel of high is raised (even though typically Canadian Raising does not operate across word boundaries).