Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
by ithkuil on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:02PM
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The thread started off about rhoticism ("[...]heavy on the R's [...]"), so I guess he reinterpreted the r+schwa as longer r.
However, the key player here is not laumars, but his friend Carol :-)
I mean, the interesting part is that she heard her name because
the epenthesis process transformed a monosyllabic word into disyllabic one, and that changed the shape of the word: kar(uh)l has the same rhythm as carol, and small vowel quality differences are probably less important that the rhythm when the word gets parsed by the brain.
However, the key player here is not laumars, but his friend Carol :-)
I mean, the interesting part is that she heard her name because the epenthesis process transformed a monosyllabic word into disyllabic one, and that changed the shape of the word: kar(uh)l has the same rhythm as carol, and small vowel quality differences are probably less important that the rhythm when the word gets parsed by the brain.