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

Paul Roser wrote:
> >> >> ROGER MILLS wrote:
> >I know. My phonetics course was a long time ago, in Summer of 1964,
>taught
> >by (I'm sure) a disciple of Ladefoged, who was also in residence that
> >summer. In addition to her text (Xeroxed, due to be published, but it
>never
> >happened, as she died shortly thereafter), (snips)
> >(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been superceded by recent phonetic research (such as the work of Esling,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.
>
Well well!! that would be exactly it, or certainly a version of it. I'm
ashamed to say I was unaware it had been published, though I wonder if the
journal article is a shortened version-- Ms. Shoup's text was a HUGE volume,
which I still have packed away somewhere. (She was my teacher-- the TAs
however were English-speaking UM grad students, and while they seemed
proficient, it's possible some of the finer details didn't make it through
their/our L1 filters :-) )