Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
>
> Technically, yes, this concerns English pronunciation.  But I'm not
> interested at this time in idiodialectic variation.  I'm just looking
> for a good list of English phonemes, regardless of how they're actually
> realized in 'lect X.
That's still an EPT, because even the *number* of phonemes is not
constant.  For example, my dialect does not distinguish /O/ and /A/, but
others do.

> It also includes these symbols:
>
>         \<sup>&</sup>\ as e in kitten
>         \&r\as ur/er in further
>
> Both of the above are really just examples of syllabicizing the
> following consonant, though, so I don't consider them phonemes.
Well, the "e in kitten" is schwa in many dialects, i.e., /kIt@n/.  For
me, it's *usually* syllabic, but /@n/ occurs on occasion.

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