Susan Ramsaran (ed.)

NB DIDN'T READ EXCEPT FOR LINDSEY ARTICLE which explains differences in vowel naturalization (including the /a/ or passta-possta (if you will) variable that I am about, in the context of Canadian and American English, to be starting a thesis on) between British and American English in terms of a tense-lax vowel distinction in American and an underlying long-short distinction in Englis, and manages to convincingly theorize a complex phenomenon in a realtively brief space. HOWEVER, A LOT OF THE OTHER STUFF LOOKS GOOD including:


-John Harris on derived phonological contrasts


-J.Windsor Lewis on happ/i/ vs. happ/I/


-several nice-looking articles on social reception, including Susan Ramsaran on myths about RP and Howard Giles et al. on its social meaning


-several nice-looking articles on non-native accents, including RK Bansal on Indian pronunciation, Hiltrud Martens on North German "Minglisch", and Roger Lass on South African vowels.


Yeah!… (altro)