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Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, July 14, 2003, 20:53
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From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Phonetics (IPA)


> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:31:07 +0100 Joe <joe@...> writes: > > > > >Aren't you the same Christophe Grandsire who claimed that > > > > >you've never heard the word "claw" pronounced anything but > > > > >/klaw/? ;-) > > > > > What I said is that I never heard it otherwise than with a > > > > diphtongue, and > > > > I still stand to that claim. I *know* what I've heard, and I'm > > > > not the kind > > > > to mistake a diphtongue for a simple phone. > > > > For what it's worth, I pronounce "claw" as [klA:]. If you'd like > > > me > > > to post a recording so you can change the above statement, let me > > > know. :) > > > And most Britons that I've met pronounce it [klO:]. I've never > > heard a dipthong there. > - > > Would a schwa-offglide pronounciation [klO@] count as a diphthong? :-) >
I suppose... Hmmm...Brooklyn? From what little I've heard on TV, at a guess.
> -Stephen (Steg) >