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Re: USAGE: [YAEPT] (was Re: "To whom")

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 15:34
Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> I don't know that the glottal stop is phonemic (and I've heard evidence > that the phoneme for US [4] is actually /t/, so 'meddle' and 'mettle' > are both homophones as (what I suppose is) /mEtl=/, contrary to > intuition).
What's the evidence for making it /t/? Usually it's described as part of the /d/ phoneme, as they still contrast before /n=/: mitten /mItn=/ (probably [mIt_}n=] or [mi?n=]) midden /mIdn=/ (maybe [mi4n=], but probably [mId_}n=]) *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/