Re: Your Help Appreciated
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 8, 2000, 18:45 |
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FFlores wrote:
> That's /U/, I guess in most dialects of English. Or did you
> mean an unrounded u, as in Japanese? (people, what's the IPA
> for that?).
Inverted "m" with a tail on the right side.
> Your system is a bit asymmetric -- you have tense and lax versions
> of /i/-/I/, /u/-/U/, /e/-/E/, but not /o/-*/O/.
Many dialects of English are like that.
Actually, for the pure vowels, that seems to be almost a complete copy
of English. The diphthongs are quite distinct, however.
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