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Re: USAGE: /t/ (was Re: USAGE: Schwa and syllabification

From:Paul Roser <pkroser@...>
Date:Monday, March 15, 2004, 21:33
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:48:32 -0000, And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:

> Scouse would have followed a similar path, except that the coronal > segments are apicoalveolar rather than laminodental. (So _pith_, > _pit_ and _piss_ all end in fricatives and all contrast.) Because > the step to [h] was lexically selective, you end up with contrasts > like _not_ [nQh] vs _knot_ [nQ$] (where $ is a fricative one > might symbolize in IPA by [t] with an openness diacritic added). > (All things considered, I'd say that _not_ has allomorphs /nQt/ > and /nQ/.)
So this /$/ is the same as the so-called Irish slit-fricative, right? Then it could be represented in IPA one of two other ways - by a <theta> with the retraction mark underneath or, dipping into extIPA symbols, <theta> with an <=> underneath (indicating an alveolar slit fricative). Bfowol

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