Re: / / vs [ ]
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 5, 2002, 7:55 |
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On 5 Jan 02, at 1:25, Sven Sommerfeld wrote:
> the phoneme /d/ may have the allophones [d] and [t] as
> in German "Hund" that is /hUnd/ but [hUnt].
I disagree there... for me, "Hund" rhymes exactly with "bunt", so I'd
write both of those as /hUnt/ and /bUnt/. If they sound the same, then
they're one phoneme. Don't be mislead by the spelling! Or even by the
fact that a final /t/ can turn into a medial /d/ when an ending is
added.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>