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Topics of the day:



 1. Regional variation in BE

 2. Headache



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Date:  Sun, 2 Jan 1994 08:00:53 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Regional variation in BE



> Another items was

> evidence that older speakers in Texas had the /IN/:/EN/ distinction, but that

> it had been lost among younger speakers. This evidence considerably confounds

> the view that the lack of the distinction is an original diagnostic of BE.



Research that Guy Bailey and I did in Texas and Mississippi in the early

'80s (some of it from tapes made earlier than that) found more such evidence.

We found the /In/:/En/ distinction present among older speakers regardless

of race and absent among younger speakers regardless of race.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

   (behind in mail)