Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:46:01 -0700
From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: whoop
An intriguing question, and surprising to reflect on. I don't have the
/hw/ : /w/ contrast [NB: it's never been /wh/ in history; that's spelling],
so the delabialization is interesting to find alternating with the /w/:
1. war whoop: /huwp/
2. whoop it up: /wUp/, perhaps varying with /wuwp/
3. gave a whoop: /huwp/ & a holler
4. whooping cough: /huwp/ (I had it.)
[NB2: Especially amongst them of us who are interested in comparing varieties,
it is much more useful to adopt the /iy/, /ey/, /uw/, /ow/ representation of
the nuclei (as happily, Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish do in their linguistics
text from MIT, of all places). I can't imagine describing the Great Vowel
Shift without it.]
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