Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 21:17 |
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:01:40 +0100, And Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:
>IMO, when Wells and his antecedents (Gimson, Jones) write "[V]", they mean
>"[V]" -- with its IPA value. (Of course when they write "/V/", they simply
>mean STRUT.)
I stand corrected. I did check Wells the other night - in the section where
he discusses the realizations of STRUT he does indeed identify that /V/ has
a wide range of dialectal realizations, including a fronted/centered
higher-mid back unrounded vowel and the turn-a, just don't remember which
applies to which dialect. I was confusing my memory of the pervasive usage
of /V/ with relatively narrow phonetic usage of [V] - though IIRC most
American texts that deal with American English generalize the use of
broad-transcription [V] to designate the stressed STRUT vowel in AmE.
-Bfowol
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