Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 20, 2003, 3:10 |
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Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> (So, in short, for you, Mary is probably /mE@ri/ (RP) or /me:ri/ (GAus)
> or something like that. In American English, it's one of /mEri/, /m&ri/
> or /meiri/, depending on how they split their phonemes.)
AFAIK, all Americans pronounce "Mary" as /meiri/; the question is whether
they pronounce "merry" and "marry" as /meiri/ also. For me they are
/mEri/ and /m&ri/ respectively.
As for "yeah", I've always thought it was a peculiar and perverse
spelling for the word /jV/. If I speak it in extreme slow motion,
it comes out /je:::::V/, but that's bizarre.
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