Re: English |a|
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 23:23 |
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On 18 Jan 2005, at 3.27 am, Roger Mills wrote:
> I had the impression Tristan's comment referred to the difference
> between
> "pot" [p_hOt]? and whatever sound he has in "saw, law" etc. IIRC he (or
> perhaps Adrian) claims that /O/ has very limited distribution in
> Austr.Engl.
Not /O/, but /O:/. /O:/ occurs only in the word 'gone'. The length is
an important and phonemic difference. (/O:/ is also the vowel typically
used to imitate an American /O/ / AW.)
/o:/ is the usual Australian transcription for the vowel in 'saw, law,
born'. (Hence, what to the vowel spelt 'or' is still relevant to this.)
There is no short */o/.
--
Tristan.