Re: Lax counterpart of [&]?
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 13, 2003, 14:50 |
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In a message dated 9/13/2003 10:14:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
isidora@ZAMORA.COM writes:
>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.
This is just a problem of notation.
Although the SAMPA chart has [ { ] for the unrounded vowel and [ & ] for the
rounded one, many people on this list prefer to use [ & ] for the unrounded
vowel, presumably because [ & ] is a much better-looking symbol -- [ { ] looks
like punctuation.
Doug