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