Re: schoen


"Joachim Pense" <spam-collector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Am Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:31:10 +0100 schrieb Ruud Harmsen:
>
> > Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:21:14 +0100: Ruud Harmsen
> > <realemailseesite13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
> >
> >>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:04:33 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
> >><grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
> >>
> >>>You know a variety of English that has a pure [e:]?? Where?
> >>
> >>Schotland.
> >
> > I dooont knooo, but I think sooo.
>
> I guess this is a misplaced answer to my question "do they have long
vowels
> there?"
>
> The reason for the question is April McMahon's analysis of Scots in
> "Understanding Language Change" (Cambrige 1994), p 61ff. Re-reading the
> relevant passage now, I find that vowel length is not contrastive in Scots
> and Scottish Standard English, but vowels become long in some phonetic
> environments. So, the bottom line is probably, yes, they do have long
> vowels there.

I believe Scotland is where Ulster got its vowel length rules from.

Regards,
Ekkehard


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