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Re: sounds I can't find!!!

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, August 16, 2004, 19:25
The Americanist scheme for transcribing back and front vowels is
basically (excluding non-roman letters):

FRONT			BACK
UNROUNDED	ROUNDED	UNROUNDED	ROUNDED
i		ü	ï		u
e		ö	ë		o
ä			a

They saved a lot of extra types etc that way

The curious are directed towards
Phonetic symbol guide / Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw

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