Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics
| From: | tristan alexander mcleay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2001, 2:37 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
>Danny Wier wrote:
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>>| No I mean the central(ized) equivalent of small oe-ligature: half open
>>| rounded central vowel.
>>| Sorry to give the impression there was a diphthong...
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>>It's okay, blame ASCII. That one I never heard, unless it's the French
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>schwa,
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>>which I was told is slightly rounded. (I should know, I took two years in
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>high
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>>school). The centralized [ø] (o-slash) is o-bar (i.e. centralized o), but
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>the
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>>centralized [oe] (ligature) is written as a closed backwards epsilon (in
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>other
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>>words, a small 3 with the left side points merged together). It still
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>sounds
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>>like French _un_ denasalized...
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>Cf. my answer to BPJ. Essentially we agree. You obviously have a very good
>ear :-)))) I'd forgotten about the modified [3] symbol you mention. (Damn,
>I MUST dig out my old phonetics textbook.)
>
Well, if this <[oe-]> is [3\], then its nicely popular at least in
Melbourne (if not all Australia), as 'bird' is pronounced /b3\:d/.
Also, does anyone know where I can get recordings of IPA sounds on the
web? (I had the 'IPA Help' proggy a while back, but had to delete it and
forgot where I got it)
Tristan
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