Date:  Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:25:21 -0600

From:  OBRYAN ERIN LEIGH <leila[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FALCON.CC.UKANS.EDU>

Subject: vowel laxing



I am doing some dialect work on vowel laxing in Wichita, Kansas and

Kansas City, Kansas. (eg. Does "really" rhyme with "silly"? Is "while"

a homophone of "wall"?) If anyone knows of any good sources on tense

versus lax vowels or any related studies, I would really appreciate any

information about them.



Erin O'Bryan

Linguistics Student

University of Kansas