End of ADS-L Digest - 3 Mar 1994 to 4 Mar 1994

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There are 25 messages totalling 430 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. local locality pronunciation (6)

 2. /lIngwIstIks/ (8)

 3. Epiphany on the Tennis Court (5)

 4. y'all singular attested in Louisiana (2)

 5. COOL /u/ or /y/ (2)

 6. I and E

 7. Sluff/Slough



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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