Re: Questions (mostly about phonemics)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 21, 2007, 7:03 |
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On Jan 20, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Leon Lin wrote:
> 3. Final pinyin /e/ does not seem to be pure, but with a unrounded
> central
> semivowel glide into it (I've heard people say that research has
> yet to find
> a language with a central semivowel). This glide seems to be a
> semivowelized
> unrounded high central vowel, described on the Ithkuil page as, "an
> obscure
> vowel found in Turkish and Japanese". (According to Wikipedia, it
> exists in
> Spanish and Korean as well (and IMO in Mandarin, too)) X-Sampa [M]
> or [M\].
[M] and [M\] are back, not central; the high central unrounded vowel
is [1] (sometimes written [i\] here).
What's this about Spanish containing one of these sounds? I didn't
find it in either the "Close central unrounded vowel" or "Close back
unrounded vowel" articles on Wikipedia. I've never heard of either
sound existing in Spanish, either, but now I'm curious.
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