Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

Kristian Jensen skrev (sinulat):

>All right... I think I'm beginning to understand this now. Thanks to
>you. I believe that all these vowel sounds are all conditioned
>variants of /@/. So you'd suggest using one symbol. But the question
>is, what symbol? It seems really contrived to me to write for
>instance a word that sounds like [mw@j] and [mj@n] as "maway" and
>"mayan" respectively.
What's contrived about it?  Looks good to me.  Or how about "mewey"
and "meyen"?

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
mpearson@ucla.edu
UCLA Department of Linguistics
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