Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 17, 2004, 18:34 |
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At 12:55 17.1.2004, Joe wrote:
>[M] and [V], IIRC. The latter is the sound in RP 'put'[pVt].
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>More exactly it used to be. The modern sound is [6], but
>traditional transcription lags behind.
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>Well, actually, I made a mistake there. The modern sound is [U], but in
>'putt' it's [pVt], and it you can't say it's changed, because English
>doesn't have a universal phonology.(YAEPT alert!).
I meant *putt*. _Putt_ is [p6t] just as surely as _put_ is
[pUt]. Pronunciation changes. Orthography changes slower.
Phonetic transcription ought to change apace with
pronunciation, but unfortunately it sometimes becomes a
kind of alternative orthography.
/BP 8^)
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