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Cali vowels
Hi
There's a tape of me saying "father, bother, on, swan, all, sorry, wash, saw, pop, caught" at http://www.euronet.nl/users/trio/father.wav I have /A/ in all these words How do you pronounce them?
Well, sure you might have /A/ when you're reading a list of a bunch of words in a formal reading voice. But I would imagine that you might pronounce them differently based on register, to whom you are speaking, enviroment of where those words are in a sentence, etc.
I have for them:
"father" ["fa:DR=:] < /"faD@r/ "bother" ["ba:DR=:] < /"baD@r/ "on" [a~:n] or [a~:] < /an/ "swan" [swA~:n], [swA~:], [swQ~:n], or [swQ~:] < /swAn/ "all" [Q:U] < /Ql/ "sorry" ["sO:Ri:] < /"sORi/ "wash" [wQS] < /wQS/ "saw" [SQ:] < /sQ/ "pop" [p_hap] < /pap/ "caught" [k_hQ?] < /kQt/
In my Massachusetts dialect, I have:
father ["fA:D@`] bother ["bQ:D@`] on [Q:n] swan ["swQ:n] all ["Q:5] sorry ["sQ:r\i] wash ["wQ:S] saw ["sQ:] pop ["p_hQ:p] caught ["k_hQ:t] As you can see, I'm cot-caught merged but father-bother unmerged.
''But I would imagine that you might pronounce them differently based on register, to whom you are speaking, environment of where those words are in a sentence, etc.''
not really ;)
You guys all have vowels which are so much more uniform for historical /A:/, /Q/, and /O:/ than I do, I have to say (whereas mine are all over the place)... and that is even though I still have the same number of mergers here (albeit a different one) than Lazar and one less than Josh...
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