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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: The Tune-Questionaire
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In article <DD4Jw2.M7q@cdf.toronto.edu>, a258toma@cdf.toronto.edu (Toma
Camil) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks again to all who responded to the Tune Questionnaire.  The results 
> are summarized below.
> 
> No variation with respect to conversation type was found, and everyone
> here has post-secondary education.
> 
> 14/20 have a strictly y-less pronounciation in all words concerned, with
> distribution as follows:
> 
> Age:            0-25            4
>                 25-50           8
>                 50+             2
> Sex             M               10
>                 F               4
> Social Class    lower           1
>                 middle          13
> Society         rural           2
>                 urban           12

The most interesting variable would have been where they grew up.
This is a dialect issue.

>                 
> 6/20 have pronounciations y-pronounciations, but in varying degrees.  All 6 
> have the y-variants in tune, dune, assume; four in resume; 1 each in lune, 
> rune.  

/rjun/ and /ljun/ ?  I suspect that person was confused, this is not
normal in any variety of English I'm aware of.  (If really true I'd
like to know where he/she comes from.)  


All are middle-class with post-secondary education.  Distribution:
> 
>         t   ty   d   dy   s   sy   z   zy   r   ry   l   ly
> 0-25        4        4        4    1   3    3   1    2   1
> 25-50       1        1        1        1    1        1
> 50+         1        1        1        1    1        1
> M           5        5        5    1   4    4   1    3   1
> F           1        1        1        1    1        1
> rur.        1        1        1        1        1        1
> urb.        5        5        5    1   4    5        4
> 

All from the UK?  Eastern US?  Canada?  Deliver the goods!

-- 
R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
