Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

Stephen Mulraney scripsit:

> Hmm... The X-SAMPA chart I usually refer to has, now that I look at
> it carefully, [&] marked for both the rounded form of [a] and for the
> unrounded front vowel between [E] and [a] ([=E6] in other words). The
> annotation for that second vowel is "& or {". The long and the short
> of this is that when I wrote [&] I meant the sound [{]: [maT@m{tISn=3D].
I figured that's what you meant: it's commonplace to deviate from strict
X-SAMPA around here to the extent of substituting "&" for "{", particularly
inasmuch as the vowel X-SAMPA writes as "&" is pretty rare.  But
[maT] would sound to me like "moth-", not "math-" which is firmly
[m&T], or [m{T] if you prefer.

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