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Re: A "minimalist" phonology...

From:Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 14:10
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