Re: A "minimalist" phonology...

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