Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

On Dec 15, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Paul Roser wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:22:52 -0500, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
> wrote:
>> (These special symols had a heavy dot on on the end of the upper
>> curve of
>> [a] and reversed-c.)
>
> Those symbols sound like two of the additions included in Gordon
> Peterson & June Shoup's
> proposed physiological- and auditory-based phonetics, published in
> the 1966 Journal of
> Speech and Hearing. It's actually quite well thought out, though
> some of their ideas have
> been superceded by recent phonetic research (such as the work of
> Esling, Edmondson &
> Harris on states of the glottis, voice quality & pharyngeal-
> laryngeal articulation). Peterson
> & Shoup's phonetic chart incorporated vowels and consonants into
> one chart, with
> pharyngeals and glottals below vowels.
>
> -Bfowol
By "below vowels", do you mean they were classed as vowels in the chart?