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Re: CHAT: Contractions in colloquial German (was: Re: articles)

From:Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon) <dragon@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 7:26
Henrik Theiling wrote:

> I do the very same. I collapse /a:/, /a6/ and /a:6/ into [a:].
Wow, three phonemes so very much alike that in English lazy phoneticians use [a] and [6] interchangeably! I'd say [a6] is probably one of my articulations of "our", but that's only one rather unique word. Adrian.