{"id":6057,"date":"2013-05-30T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=6057"},"modified":"2013-05-30T22:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:58:58","slug":"ash-tensing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=6057","title":{"rendered":":Ash tensing:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A feature of a number of regional accents of American English.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=578\">vowel <\/a><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u00e6<\/strong> <\/span> is tensed, essentially meaning it is raised and often turns into a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1289\">diphthong<\/a>.  <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u025b<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>e\u0259<\/strong><\/span>, or <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u026a\u0259<\/strong><\/span> are the resulting qualities, depending on the particular accent in question.<\/p>\n<p>The contexts in which ash tensing occurs vary from accent to accent and the situation is rather complex.  In some accents the phenomenon is partially <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=6047\">lexically conditioned<\/a>.  In Baltimore, for example, ash tensing occurs before <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>n m f \u03b8 s<\/strong><\/span> and in the words <em>bad<\/em>, <em>glad <\/em>and <em>mad<\/em>, but not in other words ending in <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d<\/strong><\/span>.  A further complication is that in some accents, notably those of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City, ash tensing has resulted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5172\">phoneme split<\/a>.  For example, <em>can <\/em>(=metal container) has undergone tensing resulting in <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ke\u0259n<\/strong><\/span>, whereas <em>can <\/em>(=be able) remains as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>k\u00e6n<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In areas where the accent has undergone the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4290\">Northern cities shift<\/a> ash tensing operates in all environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feature of a number of regional accents of American English. The vowel \u00e6 is tensed, essentially meaning it is raised and often turns into a diphthong. \u025b, e\u0259, or \u026a\u0259 are the resulting qualities, depending on the particular accent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=6057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6057\/revisions\/6068"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}