Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names

On 2/1/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> But if the vowel in <beak> et al. is /i:/,
> then is not /i/ the vowel in "click" et al?
I'd say that "weak" has vowel /i:/ and "wick" has vowel /I/.

Overspecifying, really, since you only need to distinguish quantity
_or_ quality in this phoneme pair (/i:/ vs /i/ or /i/ vs /I/ would
both be adequate), but I still like to put the length mark in my
phonemic analyses of English "long" vowels.

In the end, though, it's a matter of convention how you notate English phonemes.

(PTD would probably insist on /iy/ vs /i/. as the only permissible way.)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>