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Paragoge to prevent closed syllables

[ʒʏˈkʉʃʏ]
zhügushü
"lizard, skink"

ʉ > ʏ

[ʒʏˈɡɯʃ]
zhugysh
"lizard, skink"

Rounding dissimilation

[ʉˈɡɨʃ]
ygysh
"small reptile; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Does anybody happen to know what's the etymology of the surname Whelchel? And how is it even pronounced? This random website says "This German surname of WHELCHEL was originally derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements WALD (rule) and HERI (army). The name was introduced ...

Diphthong hardening

[ˈa.dʱakʃ]
addaysh
“water snake”

Fortition of double /r/

['ad.dejʃ]
arreysh
“otter; mustelid”

My favourite was someone saying kharkovchanka starting with /tʃ/. I think the thing with /ʒ/ is that English speakers think of it as a "foreign" sound, so they overcorrect by inserting it in foreign words. When my class started learning Spanish, their most common pronunciation of written <...

I've been trying to compile Lakes Plain resources for a while. What I've found online for free are: Full grammars - Abawiri (Yoder 2020 ), Iau (Bateman 2021 ). Somewhere out there is "A grammatical description of Fayu: a Western Lakes Plain language of West Papua" by Page Maitland which I'...

[vʲ] > [ʝʷ]

[eːˈʝʷolʲ]
éviol
(n.) "éviol, a usually melodramatic style of visual, performed, or (most often) literary art"

[eː.ʝʷuːˈʝʷolʲ]
évioûviol
(n.) "melodrama to the point of obvious sarcasm"; (v.) "be sarcastic or insincere"

[lʲ] > [u̯] /_C

[ʑvʲolʲ]
zhviol
(n.) "zhviol, a usually melodramatic style of visual, literary, or performed art"

[ʑvʲou̯ˈʑvʲolʲ]
zhviolzhviol
(n.) "melodrama to the point of obvious sarcasm"; (v.) "be sarcastic or insincere"

[ˈhɑe̯d͡ʒʷɻʷn̩(ʔ)]

In connected speech the /h/ would probably be voiced like brad's

[ˈfɑe̯ɜɻʷ ͜ ˌˌɦɑe̯d͡ʒʷɻʷn̩(ʔ)]

Maybe it's a south australian thing. For me it's almost exactly the same vowel quality as PUT (maybe a touch more backed). I think it's probably something to do with a) goose being fronted and leaving a hole in the high back area and b) maybe influence from CURE in the THOUGHT/NORTH/FORCE/CURE merger.

/jʼ/ → /ʔʲ/

[ⁿdoa˩˧] - dóa
[ʔʲsi˧] - y'khi
[ɲja˥] - nyiá
[tno˧] - tno
[ʔʲa˧] - y'a
[si˧] - shi
[ɬhɒ˧] - lhsao
[ⁿdɔj˩] - dòai
[fʷtʷʼa˧] - phtwa
[ɲji˥] - nyí

Chain shift of /cɕ/ → /ç/ → /s/ → /h/

[ⁿdoa˩˧] - dóa
[çʼsi˧] - ch'khi
[ɲja˥] - nyiá
[tno˧] - tno
[çʼa˧] - cha
[si˧] - shi
[ɬhɒ˧] - lhsao
[ⁿdɔj˩] - dòai
[fʷtʷʼa˧] - phtwa
[ɲçi˥] - nchí

Zju wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 1:42 pm Is there any dialect in which 'ore oar or awe' is pronounced [ɔː ɔː ɔː ɔː]?

In my dialect, they're /ʊː ʊː ʊː ʊː/. Actually, if I said them in a row they'd be [ʊːɻ ʊːɻ ʊːɻ ʊː], but they're still the same phoneme(s). That's Australian english btw.

"Mayn't" definitely exists, but it sounds super old fashioned. I'd expect to find it in early 20th century (and older) british books, but I wouldn't be surprised there's still some people who use it in actual speech.

Once you think of it as a fortis sound it turning into [ɬ] seems less weird. Honestly it's a less weird sound change to me than the spontaneous palatalisation of fortis laterals in Romance. I must agree - I don't get how gemination should turn into palatalization myself... The best explanation for ...

Question for all of you, particularly native English-speakers: How front does your /uː ʊ oʊ/ get? I ask because from listening to other English-speakers, particular NAE-speakers, speak, I notice that these can be fronted quite significantly (and the more I pay attention, the fronter they seem to ge...

Creaky voice shifts to glottalisation of the preceding consonant [i ʎǿ çɑ̂ː xé θǿ] I lyö hyâ he thö [i tí kɑ̂ː ɲé sʼɔ̂ː] I ti kâ nye sộn [i ftsɑ́ vi tsɔ́ ɲǿ] I ftsá vi tsọ nyö That tilde represents Nasalisation. The users of this forum thought it was more convenient to be on the bottom of the word....

Creaky voice shifts to glottalisation of the preceding consonant

[i ʎǿ çɑ̂ː xé θǿ]
I lyö hyâ he thö

[i tí kɑ̂ː ɲé sʼɔ̂ː]
I ti kâ nye sộn

[i ftsɑ́ vi tsɔ́ ɲǿ]
I ftsá vi tsọ nyö