Message Forum: Re: American Accents

Re: American Accents

Posted By: Eric Sleator, on host 72.197.43.1
Date: Sunday, November 12, 2006, at 05:07:24
In Reply To: American Accents posted by Sam on Saturday, November 11, 2006, at 09:46:52:

Mine guessed mine correctly (West). It reminds me of a much more thorough --- and, to me, fascinating --- website with maps of dialect stuff. The link is below, although the map for the cot-caught merger is here: http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_28.html

That's a pretty important dialect marker in North America. I'm on the "they're pronounced the same" side, and when I'm trying to fake an accent where "cot" and "caught" are pronounced differently I have trouble figuring out where the "AW" goes and where it just gets a regular "ah" (since out here we just have "ah" everywhere).

-Eric Sleator

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Message:	> Mine guessed mine correctly (West). It reminds me of a much more thorough --- and, to me, fascinating --- website with maps of dialect stuff. The link is below, although the map for the cot-caught merger is here: http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_28.html > > That's a pretty important dialect marker in North America. I'm on the "they're pronounced the same" side, and when I'm trying to fake an accent where "cot" and "caught" are pronounced differently I have trouble figuring out where the "AW" goes and where it just gets a regular "ah" (since out here we just have "ah" everywhere). > > -Eric Sleator
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