Re: religion, etc

And of course it varies from dialect to dialect.  The Taiwanese Mandarin
here in Kaohsiung doesn't seem to differentiate the "o-e ligature" from the
/E/ in most speaker's usage and the /@/ sounds like a plain old /@/ to me.

On a related note, how widespread is the pronunciation of the "a" in words
like "san" (three) as /ae/ (a-e ligature) as in American English "cat"?  One
of teachers consistantly pronounces /ae/ before final "n".

Adam

So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink.
In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
-------Suzanne Knutzen




>From: Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: religion, etc
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:04:19 -0400
>
>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:42:58 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...>
>wrote:
>
> >Samuel Rivier scripsit:
> >
> >> By the way, is the pinyin graph [e] pronounced /e/,
> >> /E/, /3/, /@/, /3`/, /@`/, or what?
> >
> >It is [e] in "ei" [ei], mostly [@] otherwise.
>
>Also [E] in {ie} or {ye}, [œ] (oe-ligature) in {ue}; what John
>transcribes as [@] is in fact the back (rather than central) sound
>commonly denoted with the symbol resembling 8 with removed top arch
>(I don't remember the ASCII representation for it).
>
>
>Basilius

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