Windy-Wendy merger?

RedFox   Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:54 pm GMT
[hEUsIn] was a typo. That should be [hEUzIn].
Travis   Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:58 pm GMT
>>>> I pronounce the verb "house", in contrast, as ["ha:Us] <<

Is that just because of your final consonant devoicing?<<

Yes.
Josh Lalonde   Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:14 am GMT
RedFox, I think you mentioned before that you're from the South. Where exactly? I didn't think Canadian raising usually applied to /aU/ outside of Canada and some parts of the Upper Mid-West.
Travis   Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:03 am GMT
>>RedFox, I think you mentioned before that you're from the South. Where exactly? I didn't think Canadian raising usually applied to /aU/ outside of Canada and some parts of the Upper Mid-West.<<

Actually, there are dialects in parts of the South with Canadian Raising-like phonological phenomena. However, I myself really do not know the details of such.