Re: Comma gets a cure -- in German?

The purpose of the story is to illustrate J.C. Wells' keywords (introduced
in his 1982 Accents of English) in context. As such, it would be well suited
for dialect studies; record people from different regions of the English
speaking world reading this aloud and compare their pronunciations of the
keywords.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:36 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
wrote:

> Carsten wrote:
> <<
> Look at the following: http://web.ku.edu/idea/readings/comma.htm -- Does
> anybody know whether something like this exists as well for German?
> >>
>
> Okay, I have to ask: Is there some joke at the end of this story
> I'm missing, or is the story's sole purpose to illustrate the
> phonemes of English in varying environments and combinations
> for the purposes of elicitation (e.g., a North Wind and the Sun
> type of story)?
>
> -David
> *******************************************************************
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>
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