Date:  Sat, 5 Mar 1994 16:12:00 EST

From:  "Dennis.Preston" <22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.BITNET>

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciation



Rudy,

You will lose Valley Boy status if you continue to claim that the vowels of

king, kin, and ken are all the same for you. You mean to say there is no hint

of lowering and diphthongization in your 'king.' (Perhaps there is some

lexical specification to this. I note that the process is much stronger in

'bring' and nearly categorical in 'thing' in my (Louisville, KY) speech.)

Dennis Preston

22709mgr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.bitnet