| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 18, 2004, 16:03 |
John Cowan wrote:>Steg Belsky scripsit: > > > >>On Oct 18, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Roger Mills wrote: >> >> >>>Those dialects that distinguish the vowels of _Mary, marry, merry_ >>>may be able to assign the phoneme differently, provided a derivative >>>form exists where the non-neutralized variant shows up. >>> >>> >>Some of us have a different problem :-) >> >>"Mary" /me:r\i/ = [me@r\i] >>"grass" /gr\&s/ = [gr\e@s] >> >> > >Jeepers creepers, am I the only one left who says [mer\i], [m&r\i], >[mEr\i], and [gr&s], the way God intended? Eheu, fugaces! :-) > >Well, the only American, perhaps. I have the same as you, except with [mE:r\i] instead of [mer\i].
| Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |