Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 1, 2001, 10:05 |
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On Thursday 01 November 2001 08:04, Andreas wrote:
> Speaking of 'a's, is there any (real-world) language that have a
> phonemic contrast between [A] and [a]? To my ears, they sound very
> different (much more so than for instance [o] and [O]).
Dutch for one: for instance maan [man] "moon" versus man [mAn] "man".
The thing spelt with double letters is called "long" but the contrast
is more of quality than of quantity.
Irina
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