Re: G'amah phonology
| From: | Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 21, 2000, 5:05 |
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On 20 Feb 00, at 19:25, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> From: "FFlores
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> > >>> all as in IPA. /o/ sometimes alternates with [@_O].
> > >>Voiceless schwa?
> > >Ah, the zero vowel :)
>
> > Oh no! Well, I took my ASCII IPA chart and [@_O] is supposed
> > to be a "more rounded" schwa. ("O" is letter "O", not number
> > zero).
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> Would this be the IPA sign that kinda sorta looks like a gamma with a loop
> in it? If so, Shanghainese and Taiwanese have it, and I thinks it's really
> neat sound. Alas, it doesn't really jibe with the Géarthnuns phonetic
> inventory.
I'd guess that he means what the 1989 IPA has as (what looks like a)
smallcap-theta, standing for a rounded mid-central vowel (although this
symbol is used slightly differently in the 1993 IPA). The 'baby gamma' or
'rams horns' symbol I think you're describing is used in both versions of
the IPA as an unrounded /o/ and is represented {7} in X-SAMPA.
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