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Re: Engelang phonology chat



--- In engelang@yahoogroups.com, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:
> There are very few parts of the UK where it's still [u] and in some parts it's already [y]. As for filling the gap vacated by GOOSE, some dialects pretty much have _too_ [ty], _tool, tall_ [tu].

The bias towards /y/ and against /M/ * is something universal or (Indo-)European?

* I'm using X-SAMPA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-sampa