Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

Kristian Jensen wrote:

> But there is only _one_ underlying minor vowel in Boreanesian - the
> /@/. The other realizations of this vowel ([I],[U], and zero) are
> allophones of the same vowel. That's why I have decided to symbolize
> this with the same letter all throughout. Yet, it still wouldn't
> cause any ambiguity to represent these allophones by different
> letters to better reflect the pronounciation. Its just that Raymond
> adviced using one letter. What's better, phonemic or phonetic
> transcription?
I don't know but generally, simpler is better. I just
found the old "magic seven plus or minus two" paper
webified, which may be of interest to some:

http://www.well.com/user/smalin/miller.html