Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:12:49 CDT

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET

Subject: Re: Southern Shuft



The same vowel phoneme may be (systematicelly) tense in one dialect and

(systematically) lax in another dialect. I think some people are confused

about Northern and Southern vowel shifting because they have a "cardinal"

view of "the vowel phonemes." DMLance