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Ewe/yew/you sounds like it would be a good way to test if any dialects have a true contrast between /ju/ and /iu/. Does any such dialect exist? Yeah, I contrast ewe/you. In RP, /ɑː/ represents a different lexical set than General American /ɑ/ (BATH vs COT). I'm aware that different people speak in ...

About [ju], it is basically [iw] with stress on the second component instead of the first. Another possible transcription could be [ĭu]. I don't see how your explanation is better than just assuming that [ju] is two segments. In fact, your explanation seems more complicated. You'd need to explain "...

I don't know where Bedelato lives, but I live in New England and can tell you that mack~Mach~mock are distinct for most people in all of northern New England and probably southern New England with the exception of areas that have been influenced by New York. My accent is entirely American, as far a...

Yeah, two new topics in a row. I have lots of stuff to talk about. My question is, how exactly did /t d/ in English become apical alveolar stops when in PIE they were clearly dental (as evidenced by the fact that PIE */t/ became Germanic */θ/ rather than, say, */s/)? Does anyone know details about t...

For instance, what logic is behind transcribing my [əw] as /o:/? Good question! Thankfully no-one claims that English has /o:/. i u ɪ ʊ e: ə o: ɛ ʌ ɔ æ ɑ: Diphthongs: aɪ aʊ ɔɪ ju Okay, usually what you've called "e:" and "o:" are transcribed as /eɪ/ and /oʊ/. Also, /ɑ/ is not long. Also also, stand...

I've done some thinking on this lately, and the conventional analysis of English vowels seems to be a very lousy fit for my idiolect. For instance, what logic is behind transcribing my [əw] as /o:/? So I've made an attempt at documenting the vowel system of my personal English. First, the (admittedl...

My conlang Bengedian's derivational morphology hasn't quite "dried out" yet, though some solid forms have shown up: -om attaches to a verb and denotes the agent: dalem "give" → dalom "giver" thangem "throw" → thangom "thrower" hiorem "learn" → hiorom "student" -and denotes the direct object: dalem "...

First thought on seeing thread: "ZOMG Old English had /q/ ?"

(I can't believe I just used chatspeak...)

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Bengedian:

ran /ɹan/ (n.): gang, union, club, group of people

Next word: thing

I don't have the complete picture, but I do have some stuff: Selected sound changes from Proto-Germanic to Proto-West Germanic -/æ:/→/a:/ -Unstressed /ai au/→/æ: o:/ -Word-final /z/ lost -All other /z/→/r/ -Consonants except /r/ are doubled before /j/ Selected sound changes from Proto-West Germanic ...

I use both 've got and have interchangeably. Also, I tend to elide the final /d/ in "and" when it's unstressed, making it homophonous with "an" as [ɛn], with [ɛ] being an unstressed allophone of /æ/. Examples: "pickles and tea" /pɪkəlz ænd ti/→[pʰɪkɫz ɛ̃n tʰiː] "launch and attack" /'lɑntʃ ænd ə'tæk/...

Bengedian: fašem (v) to do (-em: infinitive, gerund, present active participle) fašand (n) action, doing (-and: verbal noun, like English "-ing" in "building (structure)", "setting (of a story)") fašad (n) program, procedure (-ad: collective suffix) rad (n) work, task, errand, assignment Next word: ...