Date:  Sun, 4 Dec 1994 18:27:38 -0500

From:  ALICE FABER <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: RE /bijl/



I just got back from a conference, and among the 49 messages waiting (and I

get ADS-L in digest form!), is one about the very topic of our (me, Cathi

Best, and Marianna Di Paolo) presentation...



The question was about the tendency to pronounce /ihl/ as /ijl/ and /ijl/ ans

/ihl/, I believe in Texas. With regard to Texas, this was one of the variables

Guy Bailey and his colleagues tracked in their study of Texas English. The

only reference I can think of off hand is the paper on apparent time that

appeared in Language Variation and Change in the past year or so. They may

also have tracked this in Oklahoma. Marianna Di Paolo has investigated similar

phenomena in Utah, and I have collaborated with her in some of this work. We

had a paper in LVC in 1990, that includes references to literature on the

phenomena in other regions (what little we were able to find); unfortunately,

I don't have a copy at home, so I can't post details, alas.



Alice Faber

Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]haskins.yale.edu