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1st person with 2nd person animates. What do you mean exactly? spreading out the agentivity hierarchy: 1st person animate 1st person inanimate 2nd person animate <--- the split is here 2nd person inanimate etc... so the entire 1st person and 2nd person animates get nom/acc alignment Umm typically 1...

Nih šu c'aknəyówə go.
also NEG agree-PFV-A:1S-P:3SM EGO
I also don't agree.

I have (diachronically l-vocalized):

balk: [pɒʔk]
folk: [foʔk]

but (synchronically l-vocalized):

almond: [ˈɒ̃ːõ̯mɘ̃ːn(t)]

I also have /ˈsælmən/ for the author (never heard of the actor) and /ˈsæmən/ for the fish.

dolphin: [ˈtɒo̯fn̩(ː)]~[ˈtɒo̯fɘ̃(ː)(n)]

In my dialect it is normal to use -n't whenever possible except for with am, must, shall, or ought, unless negation is being specifically emphasized or a higher register is being used.

not sure if this belongs in a separative thread, but: how do stress rules change over time? Take for instance a language with antepenultimate stress. Then consider that some final vowels are lost. As a result one gets a language where stress can be either antepenultimate or penultimate. Another cas...

Does anyone else have /wʌnt/ for went ? I think this might be related to my pin - pen merger, but it's hard to say because I can't think of any other words where I have /ɛ/ > [ʌ]. What about "twenty"? [twʌɾ̃i] ~ [tʃwʌɾ̃i] seems fairly common. In the dialect here it is normal to have [ˈtʲʰ...

I should say that /st/ > [s] seems to be highly lexicalized (and limited to very common words), in that it is actually /st/ > /s/, i.e. the change is frozen into the underlying form. Words that are not very common tend more IMD to have [sʲː] rather than [s] for final /st/.

how do you pronounce plural words that end in /sts/? it's one of the most uncomfortable clusters ever, and i've heard people who flat out don't even say the /ts/. I once had a conversation with a couple of roofers from Chicago who had reanalysed joist to joice in their speech, presumably via a plur...

penetrative : [ˈpʰɜ̃ː(n)ɘˌtʃʰɻ͡ʁeɾɘːf] Joan : [tʃõ(ː)(n)] vase : [ves] phased : [feːsʲtʲ] I commonly reduce /sts/ to [sʲː] or [sː] (which depends upon whether I really analyze it as /sts/ or /ss/, because final /st/ (but not /zd/ despite that I pronounce it as [sʲtʲ]) regularly becomes [s] IMD (whe...

[kʰn̩ˈtʰɘ̃ː(n)juːwɘs]

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I wonder how common unstressed intervocalic /t d n nt nd/ as well as /b v ð/ elision are, because you'd think that they are highly non-standard, yet I practically never encounter native English-speakers here who have a problem with them (as opposed to non-native English-speakers, who are readily con...

To me it's not just a syllabification thing but a stress thing; /t/ at the beginning of onsets of stressed syllables are aspirated, not glottalized or flapped. I have: retire : [ʁʷəˈtʰə(ː)e̯ʁ]~[ˌʁʷiˈtʰə(ː)e̯ʁ] autism : [ˈɒˌtʰɘːzm̩(ː)] retard : [ʁʷəˈtʰɑːʁt]~[ˌʁʷiˈtʰɑːʁt] (verb), [ˈʁʷiˌtʰɑːʁt] (noun) ...

If that model is correct, expect everybody to start speaking a common dialect of English, with pre-globalization varieties of English disappearing almost without a trace. However, with English, it seems that there are two processes taking place - a loss of local dialects, but simultaneously an emer...

It definitely doesn't sound like the gutteral rhotics of Europe. It probably is more postvelar rather than uvular proper, it is an approximant rather than a fricative or trill, and when initial or at the start of a stressed syllable it is noticeably labialized (and it is probably labialized in othe...

I have gotten to the point that I can make myself do a plain alveolar or postalveolar /r/, with or without labialization, as opposed to a uvular or coarticulated postalveolar-uvular /r/ with or without labialization, and it sounds almost the same as my usual /r/, but the articulation is completely u...

Getting the vowels wrong can even affect perception of the consonants . I think I've posted before about not being able to understand perceiving a German friend's final consonants as devoiced when, on closer listening, they clearly weren't and finally determining that what gave that impression was ...

Ék mõk yèi b'õuk brùn b'õuk ngàe wìt ni'amãeu goo chãi ga niung màe - b'õuk yõ hí sí ék hí silâe i raeiu tẽe ẽe b'âu càe bã chãi ga niung thè. 1S wonder how human find human some except ACT-date far at_time PROX.S CLASS EGO / human every REL know 1S REL marry and child new DAT many CLASS at_time PR...