Re: A "minimalist" phonology...

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:10:13 -0400 Oskar Gudlaugsson
<hr_oskar@...> writes:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:07:48 -0400, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> wrote:
>
> >I've seen the vowel space diagrammed as something like:
> >take the letter D.
> >lay it on it's straight edge, so the curve is facing up.
> >Slice it in half and discard the left half.
> >stretch what's left horizontally so that it ends up around the
> length
> >that the whole letter used to take up.
>
> Interesting... but then what? How do the vowel axes map onto that?
>
> Is the final result something like this?
>
> ------\
> |      \
> |      |
> -------|
>
> That's using crude ASCII characters, of course, so I can't quite
> catch the
> curve on the right-hand side.
>
> Óskar
-

Something like that...
lemme change my font to something uniform-width and try to draw it
myself...

Not remembering if the left line was vertical or angled, it was something
like:


i-------------u
|
e---------------------o
|
E---------------------------O
|
&------------------------------A

I'm not trying to draw the right curve because ASCII doesn't have
diagonals that are the right angle for it.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "the entire world is a very narrow bridge,
  and the important thing is to have no fear at all."