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Re: IPA/SAMP question

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Thursday, November 15, 2001, 11:29
* Lars Henrik Mathiesen said on 2001-11-14 17:02:28 +0100
> It's not uncommon for a natlang to have an unconditioned four way > height contrast in the front vowels, but then it's usually /i e E > a/. I don't think I've heard about a five way phonemic contrast, > though there are languages where a greater number of vowels heights > occur in different contexts (short vs. long, for instance).
Does dialects count? Was a guy in my phonetics-class last semester that had /i e E { a A/ as phonemes :) (Plus the schwa and sundry rounded ones of course.) t.

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Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>