Re: Pronunciation keys

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> Hm.  Laziness or a new phonemic analysis?  Maybe the theory is that if
> any dialect can get away with not distinguishing them, they must not
> be distinct phonemes. :)
Well, some thought appears to've gone into the scheme. For instance,
intervocalic /t/ is transcribed as [d], except before a vowel bearing primary or
secondary stress, and a few instances immediately after a morpheme boundary,
where it is [t]. Unhelpful for those of us who distinguish "matter" and "madder"
(both ['mad.@r] in this system), but hardly the product of pure laziness either.

                                        Andreas