End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Mar 1994 to 5 Mar 1994

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There are 3 messages totalling 51 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. COOL /u/ or /y/

 2. local locality pronunciation

 3. y'all singular attested in Louisiana



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Date:  Sun, 6 Mar 1994 08:27:00 EST

From:  BERGDAHL%A1.OUVAX.mrgate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: COOL /u/ or /y/



From:  NAME: David Bergdahl

    FUNC: English

    TEL: (614) 593-2783          <BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]A1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX>

To:   NAME: MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" <MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu"[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MRGATE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX>



In this part of SE Ohio fronted variants of [u] and [U] are common, e.g. 'cool'

and 'good' esp. among the Appalachian population. Appalachian is a good test

case: Pennsylvannian-derived settlers say it with [ae] while Kentucky-derived

ones favor [e]. Other interesting (pronounced inner resting) features here are

the tensing of [I], [E] & [U] before sh in fish, special (=spatial) and push.

The [E] to [e] shift is heard far outside this region and seems to have no

social value, and the shift occurs before {zh} too, e.g. measure. The [I] to

[i] shift has some appalachian associations but seems to be losing its social

value in words like decision and transmission: polysyllables.



David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU