How does everyone pronounce this word? (Also put where you're from please).
Salt
/sAlt/. Is there really much variation in the pronunciation of this word phonemically, as opposed to phonetically?
I was mostly wondering if anyone pronounced it /sOlt/. I read that in Wales, it's /sQlt/
I myself pronounce "salt" as [sQU?] or, in phonemic notation, as /sQlt/ (corresponding to historical /sOlt/).
Do any cot-caught unmerged accents have /sAlt/? Does the sequence /Al/ even exist in c-c unmerged accents?
>>Do any cot-caught unmerged accents have /sAlt/? Does the sequence /Al/ even exist in c-c unmerged accents?<<
My dialect does not have /A/, but its closest analogue /a/ does exist in the sequence /al/ in my dialect. That said, though, this sequence only exists in a stable form with a consistent [a] in open syllables and said /a/ is normally shifted to [Q] or [A] (which exist in free variation, but with the former being preferred more consistently in more informal speech) when it falls in closed syllables.
My dialect does not have /A/, but its closest analogue /a/ does exist in the sequence /al/ in my dialect. That said, though, this sequence only exists in a stable form with a consistent [a] in open syllables and said /a/ is normally shifted to [Q] or [A] (which exist in free variation, but with the former being preferred more consistently in more informal speech) when it falls in closed syllables.
That said, most instances of /al/ are either from historical /Ql/ or from loanwords or newer coinages, as historical /al/'s being shifted to /O:l/ is consistently reflected as /Ql/ in my dialect (aside, of course, from the cases where it was not shifted in such a fashion but rather became /{l/).
I was really thinking of closed syllables; I should have mentioned that above. So I suppose you have /al/ in, for example, 'Colorado'. What do you have in 'Albany'?
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"Sault" would be how I pronounce "salt". I'm from California, in case you missed the "californian" part of my username...
"Sault" would be how I pronounce "salt". I'm from California, in case you missed the "californian" part of my username...
I'm from Georgia and I have /sAlt/ for "salt". /sQlt/ and /sOlt/ sound distinctly northern to me.
<<Does the sequence /Al/ even exist in c-c unmerged accents?>>
For me, it does, though it's generally limited to foreign borrowings. For instance, "Dahli" /dA:lI/ clearly contrasts with "dolly" /do:lI/. By the way, "Colorado" is /ko:l@rA:do:/ for me and "salt" is /sO:lt/.
For me, it does, though it's generally limited to foreign borrowings. For instance, "Dahli" /dA:lI/ clearly contrasts with "dolly" /do:lI/. By the way, "Colorado" is /ko:l@rA:do:/ for me and "salt" is /sO:lt/.