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Re: Lax counterpart of [&]?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, September 14, 2003, 18:27
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> Now I'm really confused! From looking at the charts, I was under the > impression that [&] was a low front (tense) *rounded* vowel. But I'm > pretty certain that I don't pronounce "path" and "pat" with a rounded > vowel, but with an unrounded one. I've always thought that it was [{] that > I used for those.
Oh! Were you originally asking about X-SAMPA [&]?? I, and I believe the other respondents, assumed you meant IPA ash, X-SAMPA [{], which we usually use [&] for on here (and on sci.lang, too, I've noticed). -Mark

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Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>