Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 18, 2004, 0:50 |
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At 20:18 17.1.2004, Joe wrote:
>But you can't say with any confidence 'it used to be'. Nothing ever
>changes universally, to the same sound.
It has nothing to do with universal tendencies
of language change, but with the way Sweet described
the sound in these English words a hundred years ago
versus what phoneticians observe in the same words
today.
> In my ideolect, it's definitely
>not [6], which sounds far too [a]-ish. I think it's definitely either
>[3] or [V], probably the latter.
Most RP speakers' /V/ sounds very [a]-ish
to me. Much more so than Americans'/V/s,
or Korean /V/, which latter definitely is
different from both the RP and the US sounds.
/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X)
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