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Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

From:And Rosta <and.rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 1:01
Paul Roser, On 16/06/2006 15:26:
> Right - *official* IPA has [V] as the low-mid back unround vowel, the > counterpart to [O] (reversed c), *however* Wells and just about every other > text I've ever seen on English phonetics and phonology uses this symbol for > the stressed vowel in /but, cut, above/ etc. So there's a definite > disconnect between how the IPA interprets the symbol cross-linguistically > and how English specialists interpret it. Which makes me wonder if Catford > or Ladefoged ever used a different symbol in narrower transcriptions - I'll > have to check when I get home. > > Bfowol
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.) --And.