I'm a Midwesterner through and through--is that why I struggle to remember the g after every in? Yep--runnin' and jumpin' sound perfectly normal to me. And I'm serious about my question--I try hard to pronounce the full -ing and I've never understood why it's such a struggle for me (otherwise I have a pretty decent vocabulary). Can I blame it on my environment? Carol
Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm -----Original Message----- From: Beth Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/9/2007 7:12 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Foreign accent syndrome Thank you for rushing to my defense, Stephen. And thanks for apologies, Tim, though not necessary at all. The hideous example of "Young American Dialect" probably sounds even worse to those not from New England, because in addition to what used to be called "Val Gal" (remember that? it was a sort of mush-mouth speech affectation used by teenaged girls, complete with its own little obscure glossary), here we also have the New England accent twisted into it. So my original sentence, phonetically, looks more like: "OhmiGOO-od. Ah yuh SEER-e-ous?...LATE-uh." As I'm originally from Ohio (where we have our own idiosyncratic pronunciation - think "runnin'," "jumpin'," and "warsh" for "wash"), my ear still picks up on New Englandese, even after 30+ years. And I haven't completely lost my Ohio accent either, though I left in 1964, at 17. (Henry Kissinger and I may have at least one thing in common.) Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:16 AM Subject: [tips] Foreign accent syndrome Beth Benoit went: > Ohmigod, are you serious? When I saw this, I was like, whatever. You > guys are so: I don't even know. Later. Tim Shearon tried to explain: > Beth. Approximately six documented cases a year people begin speaking = > with notable and recognizable inflection following a stroke or head = > injury. Is that what you mean by serious? :) Yup. Unusual but it = > happens. Tim I think I can help here. Tim, my deconstruction of Beth's remark is not that she was expressing amazement at foreign language syndrome (as well we all may). Instead, she was contributing a tiny perfect sample of Young American dialect (accent, if you will). Well done, Beth. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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