‘a woman’s dress’,
easily written as: waeetlh’
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for AMP:
waeetlh’
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Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk
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Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk
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Americanist Phonetic
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IPA
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Exactly Jacobs’ transcription
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Americanist Phonetic & IPA
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[ we·tɫʼ ],
then
[ wæ·tɫʼ ]
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[ weˑtɬʼ ],
then
[ wæˑtɬʼ ]
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wɛ́·tʼɫ
Modernized: wɛ́·tɫʼ
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[ wæ·tɫʼ ]
&
[ wæˑtɬʼ ]
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: wattl!.
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A High Example of the Phoneme / æ /: Lolly Metcalf’s first pronunciation of this
word is not the one to imitate. It
probably does not count as an outright mispronunciation though, because the
phonetic vowel [ e ] is one of the natural pronunciations of the Milluk
phonemic vowel that we write as / æ /.
Moreover, this is only a borderline, very low example of the phonetic
vowel [ e ], almost qualifying as across the border into the vowel space of [ æ
], as a very high instance of [ æ ].
Notice that it seems as if Lolly is stretching as she says the word this
first time, and then she takes a deep breath.
It is as if her tongue got pushed up a bit as she stretched and got
ready to take the deep breath.
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