Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 15, 2007, 6:12 |
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On Dec 15, 2007 12:49 AM, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> I don't know if it makes sense to use the NEAR set at all with American
> English -- half of the words are just KIT + r (or FLEECE + r, take your
> pick), and most of the rest are FLEECE + COMMA, or in a couple of cases
> "l-colored" FLEECE. (I like that idea of "l-colored" vowels
Glad you like it. I think "lateralized" makes a good technical term for
it. But I disagree about not having NEAR in GAE - the R does change the
vowel, and if you take away NEAR, you might as well take away START, etc.
too.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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