Re: more English orthography
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 22, 2000, 2:48 |
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Marcus Smith wrote:
> Looks like another difference in our phonological training coming into play.
> Menominee has quite a few examples of 3 underlying phones reducing to 2.
Well, would you at least agree that [S] and [s] are *on the surface*
seperate phonemes, but *underlyingly* (I just love that construction)
are the same phoneme?
The bit about using [I] and [E] in foreign words is interesting. I'd
never heard about that. Do you know if that's common?
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