Re: Warter, warter everywhere
- From: Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:07:04 -1000
Mike Wright wrote:
I had four friends say "water", and here are the results:
Two had /wart@r/ (or however that should be transcribed). One is from New York, by way of North Carolina. I'd say that he has a New York accent of some kind. The other, his girlfriend, is from Texas and has a fairly strong Texas accent.
The other two, like me, had /wat@r/. [...]
Did they really have two different sounds after the /t/, or is /@r/ a digraph for a single phoneme?
To put it another way, if /@/ is to be established as a phoneme there, doesn't it have to contrast with some other phoneme in the same environment?
(I confess that I worry that my query might result from incipient Alzheimers.)
Bart Mathias
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