Re: -ire words

From: Scott Wood (nospam_at_buserror.net)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:16:34 -0500

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:21:30 +0000 (UTC), Aaron J. Dinkin <dinkin@babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Didn't someone in a.u.e and sci.lang propose this phonemic constrast for
> his own accent several weeks ago, on the basis of "writer" and "rider"
> (rather than have to interpret [*] as /t/ in one word and /d/ in the other).

Yes, I did. I don't have the distinction among the -ire words, though
(they're all roughly [AjR] or [AijR]).

-Scott