Re: Your first "linguistic" memory

Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>
> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:51:51 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
>
> >Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
> >
> >> I didn't say that it was true, just that they cited it as evidence that
> >> they were saying the "r". In my dialect, omitting an "r" will almost
> >> always affect the pronunciation but usually because the vowel quality
> >> is affected. A rare counter example is father / farther which sound
> >> the same in my dialect.
> >
> >"Father" has as long a vowel as "farther"?
>
> In non-rhotic English, yes. Why would they be different?

Because non-rhotic accents usually lengthen the vowel when they omit the
following r. I imagine they started out with the same underlying vocalic
phoneme.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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