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Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey
03:39
Anyone here?
 
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kiamlaluno
kiamlaluno
12:02
@RobertHarvey Now yes, now not, now yes, now not. ;)
 
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Anonymous
16:04
I tried to answer the question about s-palatalization. I may not have done a very good job--I deleted it for a moment to try to fix it up a bit. When I went to undelete it, the question had been deleted by its owner, so I couldn't!
Anonymous
I'm an American speaker, and I'm personally unfamiliar with any U.S. dialects with this pronunciation. (That doesn't mean they don't exist, just that I'm unaware of them. I could be profoundly ignorant!)

Personally, if I heard læʃt, I would guess the speaker was from the area sometimes referred to as "drunk":

> Palatalization of [s]
>
> Lester and Skousen (1974) first reported an alcohol-induced palatalization of the segment [s] in native speakers of English. In 1985, Pisoni also reported having seen instances of productions of [s] as [ʃ] in intoxicated speech (Chin & Pisoni, 1997, p. 1…
Anonymous
That was my answer, which I'm pasting into chat because the poor thing has no home.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@snailplane Hahaha, that area!
I believe this phenomenon exists in many languages, including Dutch.
A relaxing of the tongue.
 
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WendiKidd
WendiKidd
21:15
@snailplane Aww, too bad. I'm sorry! (Do you have a link to the question?)
StoneyB
StoneyB
21:57
@snailplane Linguists may not have caught up to it until 74, but everybody else has known about it much longer. Here's an example from 1915.
And here's one from 1865.

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