From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 27145
Date: 2003-11-13
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:Perhaps a cleaner example is 'cushion', where /s^/ is the only labializing
>> French "ch" and (perhaps to a lesser extent) English "sh" are
>> pronounced with rounded lips.
>>
>
>And in Standard English, the rounding contributed to the retention
>of [u], as opposed to an unrounded central to back vowel, in words
>such as 'push' and 'bush'.