Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Thursday, December 10, 1998, 1:53
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