Re: Brr (was: Re: A few questions about linguistics concerning my new project)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 2, 2007, 12:53 |
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On 8/2/07, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> I read somewhere about a natlang whose (phonemic) vowels seemed to be
> distinguished only by height (and not by backness; don't remember
> about rounding). Such a lang could conceivably have phonemic /1/ vs
> /a/ (though phonetically, I don't know what the allophonic range could
> be -- conceivably rather wide).
>
> Unfortunately, I don't remember details.
These may be starting-points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_vowel_system ;
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507(197109)47%3A3%3C734%3ASMAILC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
(on Marshallese; see especially the last paragraph of the scan).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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