Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 13:39 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:58:25PM -0400, Doug Dee wrote:
> > How does M-W reflect the 3-way merry/marry/Mary distinction?
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> For "merry", only one pronunciation is listed: /'mEri/.
> For "marry", two are given: /'m{ri/ and /'mEri/
> For "Mary", three: /'mEri/, /'m{ri/, and /'mejri/.
For me: [mEri], [m{ri] and [mE:ri]. Vowel length of [E] is phonemic. For
instance, I would here [E] as 'eh'(though in my dialect, that's closer to
[e]), not 'air'[E:].
> -Mark
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