Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

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.