Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 16, 2004, 23:36 |
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Joe wrote:
<<[M] and [V], IIRC. The latter is the sound in RP 'put'[pVt].>>
No... The [M] is right for a high, back, unrounded vowel, but [V] is the
symbol for an open-mid back unrounded vowel, which is the "u" in "putt", not
"put"--that vowel is [U] (unrounded, for me, for which there is no single IPA or
X-SAMPA symbol). For a close-mid, back unrounded vowel, the symbol is [7]
(which is close to V, so I guess it makes sense. Consider the movie with Brad
Pitt and Kevin Spacey, which was popularly spelled Se7en).
-David
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