Date:  Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:51:37 -0700

From:  Marianna Di Paolo <m.dipaolo[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]M.CC.UTAH.EDU>

Subject: /w/ and /hw/



I believe that the /njun dey nuwz/ example was first described by David

DeCamp in his study of San Francisco English, but I can't seem to find the

reference right now.



Interestingly, Joyce Penfield and Jacob Ornstein-Galicia include the merger

of /w/ and /hw/ as a characteristic of Chicano English (1985 _Chicano

English:an ethnic contact dialect._), which suggests at least that they

must have the contrast between /w/ and /hw/ and that they assume Anglos

from the El Paso area do as well.





>

>Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:46:12 -0500

>From:  Donald Larmouth <LARMOUTD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>

>Subject: Re: /w/ and /hw/

>

>It may be the last bastion of /hw/ is broadcast school. We have a local news

>anchor who routinely hypercorrects /hw/ in 'weapons' and assiduously uses /hw/

>elsewhere. May be like the example Raven McDavid used to cite--the /njun dey

>nuwz/--where the /nj/ pronunciation was presumed to be more elevated than plain

>old /n/. As a native speaker of /hw/ from Chicago, I feel like the last of a

>dying breed here in NE Wisconsin, where /hw/ is rare.

>



Marianna Di Paolo

m.dipaolo[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]m.cc.utah.edu

Linguistics Program

2300 LNCO

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT  84112