Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 11:26 |
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At 06:40 17/07/03, you wrote:
> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > I'm looking for the ones that are phonemically
> > distinct in *some*
> > dialect. I don't distinguish /O/ and /A/ either -
> > [O] doesn't
> > appear at all in my speech unless I'm intentionally
> > imitating another
> > dialect or speaking another language. But I
> > recognize that they're
> > distinct English phonemes because in some dialects
> > they're distinct.
>
>
>Perhaps /Vi/ (and /Vu/?) in dialects with Canadian
>rising.
No, they aren't separate phonemes (well, assuming one believes in ordered
rules): they're allophones of /ai/, /au/ before voiceless consonants.
Oh, and don't forget /x/ (I don't think I've seen that mentioned yet).
Ian
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