Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 14:29 |
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At 14:55 17/07/03, you wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Ian Spackman wrote:
> > Oh, and don't forget /x/ (I don't think I've seen that mentioned yet).
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>I didn't think /x/ occurred in any English words, though, which would
>make it not an English phoneme. It's a common enough sound that most
>English speakers have heard it, but not in native words.
You don't consider loch an English word? (To take the most obvious example.)
My understanding was that this was an attempt at a phoneme list for all
English dialects. /x/ certainly occurs in Scots; the only question it
seems to me is whether Scots counts as English.
Ian
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