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Re: târuven vowels and diphthongs

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Monday, October 16, 2000, 21:05
Tal skrev:

> ftp://rhiann.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/ling/phon/IPAsounds/ > (since big files in email is a no-no </sysadmin>)
What an excellent excellent site! Thanks for the tip! Those files worked fine, btw.
> I sure wonder why the mp3s didn't work, have you tried downloading > them, then playing?
I reinstalled and finally managed to get things to work normally again. Now I can listen to the sun-wind story.
> > Well, I meant the explanation of /H/ as in French _lui_. But > > the entire passage is good.
> The grave versions of the vowels are the semi-vowels of those vowels... > how's that explanation?
Aha! Why didn't you... :p Seriously. That's the original explanation, isn't it? That's a good one. To tell you the truth I actually used the târuven system to describe a diphthong in Runology class today. :)
> [snip (assumed) Windows-trouble, 'cause don't get me started...]
Yes. Typical Windows-trouble. Grrr. Daniel