Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 17, 2004, 11:48 |
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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> At 23:38 16.1.2004, Joe wrote:
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>> How does one represent back unrounded /u/ and /o/ in X-Sampa?
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>> [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.
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!).
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