Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."

On 2/6/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
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> > Likewise, the use of /a:/ and /a/ for the vowels of "part" and "pat" in
> > Danglish does not introduce /:/ as a phoneme...
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> Well, it does do so, though strictly in terms of _his_ idio-/dialect; how
> that relates to "Pan-English" is, I think, what's being argued.

The distinction I meant to draw was between  "phonemes", like /a/ and /a:/,
vs phonemically-significant features, like vowel quantity.  If /:/ were a
phoneme then it would be required to include it wherever it appears (as in
/e:/), but as a feature it only *needs* to be included where it makes a
phonemic distinction.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>