Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

On 10/5/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton skrev:
>  > (Except in loanwords, which can have "half-long" vowels
>
> And you are sure those are not secondary stressed? They
> may exist in Swedish too, IINM.
Yes, probably.

Note, however, that this bit:

>  > - with the phonetic value of German long rather than short
>  >   vowels, i.e. [e i o u y 2] instead of [E I O U Y 9] - in
>  >   unstressed syllables.
can be in completely unstressed syllables, e.g. the second syllable of
,Philo'soph "philosopher" has [o], not [O].

> There are always the segment of the public who can't or
> won't learn IPA.
And they're the cause of the multitude of phonetic respelling systems
rampant in English-language dictionaries, so you can never be sure
what someone means when they talk about /&/ or /ä/ or whatever. (And
some you can't even write very well in Unicode, e.g. "d-h digraph with
stroke"!)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>