California vowels

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Interesting links on California vowels:http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.htmlhttp://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1693373So many shifts

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[nq:1]Interesting links on California vowels: http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html[/nq]
Thanks! Nice and simple!
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/ae/ The vowel in hat, hand, pass is splitting into two varants. Before nasal consonants (n, m, ng) it becomes a diphthong, and the first part of the diphthong is shifting towards /iy/ Example: stand sounds more like stee-and
Before other consonants, as in hat, rack, cast, it shifts in the other direction, towards the vowel in hot, rock, cost Example: that sounds more like thot
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This, at last, explains what I heard all the time during my visit in CA. I was surprized to hear "black plant" having very different vowels! Now I understand.
Greetings,
latet

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[nq:1]Thanks! Nice and simple! ** /ae/ The vowel in hat, hand, pass is splitting into two varants. Before nasal consonants ... my visit in CA. I was surprized to hear "black plant" having very different vowels! Now I understand. Greetings, latet[/nq]
Hi!
Listen to a sample of new Plavka's song:
http://www.plavka.com/momentgone.mp3
Plavka Lonich is a Los Angeles-born, London-based singer; the singer of German dance band Jam & Spoon
(her parents have Croatian & Peruan origins)
her Californian vowels in this sample:
fallin' (fahlin)
walkin' (wahkin)
gone between (gahn) & (gOn) but closer to (gahn)

Greetings,
Tom

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[nq:1]her Californian vowels in this sample: fallin' (fahlin) walkin' (wahkin) gone between (gahn) & (gOn) but closer to (gahn)[/nq]
I have listened and I don't get it.
Isn't it just the opposite to what the shift graph shows? http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html
latet

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[nq:2]her Californian vowels in this sample: fallin' (fahlin) walkin' (wahkin) gone between (gahn) & (gOn) but closer to (gahn)[/nq]
[nq:1]I have listened and I don't get it. Isn't it just the opposite to what the shift graph shows? http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html latet[/nq]
Well, not everyone in California has this chift.
Only Valley-girl accent has it. It is more of a social dialect than a regional dialect.
Listen to the girl in Frank Zappa's song Valley Girl. She has that shift.
tom

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I have listened and I don't get it.
Isn't it just the opposite to what the shift graph shows? http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html
I am not the expert you want, but note that
there are two different graphs.
The second one is labeled Northern Cities,
which is for places thousands of miles away from
Northern California.
I only find half of the stated shifts in my speech, but then I grew up in Southern California.
There has been a large influx into Northern California from other places in the last fifty some years.
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.

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