Date:  Sat, 19 Mar 1994 14:08:40 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Southern Palatal Glide in /aesh/



In response to Don Lance's very informative and insightful note, I just want

to clarify that I was not intending to combine the rules; just commenting

on some parallel effects. The /ae/ --> /aey/ Southern rule operates before

Nasal + Vl Stop and before Vl Fricatives -- a curious combination -- which

is the same context as affects the British/Boston /ae/ --> /a/, and is clearly

different from the simple assimilative development of a [y]-glide preceding

palatals.

    On the excresent [t] in <Lance>, I have it all the time anyway. I

cannot without the greatest concentration make a distinction between <prince>

and <prints>, as a British friend was fond of pointing out. Lexicalization

of these things, and different strata of learning, can produce contrasts even

within individual speech, as one East Texas speaker I know who distinguishes

/paeynts/ "article of clothing" and /paents/ "what a dog does", since they

were learned at different times under different circumstances.

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)