Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:04:40 -0500

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.UTK.EDU>

Subject: Re: /w/ and /hw/



I think itis true that the Am. SE has been "the last stronghold of [hw],"

but change continues and innovations spread, and my experience is that

even students from the SE who are under 30-35 years of old have a complete

merger of w/hw. As a native speaker of /hw-/, I have to work hard to

get students to hear what I am saying. Exceptions: students from very rural

areas.



Bethany Dumas

<dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utk.edu>