Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 23:11:20 CST

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciation



Re Dennis Preston's query about the vowel in the first syllable in

'linguistics'. My students are divided in their use of [I] and [i] in

transcriptions of their own speech, and the transcription matches the

way I hear their vowels. I haven't managed to make myself make time to see

how these vowels correlate with presence or absence of [g] in this word, but

no motivation for such a count has popped off the homework pages as I've

checked their transcriptions.

DMLance