Re: vowel descriptions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 18:39 |
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Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> I also don't understand the difference you make between /@<r>/
> (Kirshenbaum) and /r=/ (SAMPA) As far as I am concerned, they are one and
> the same. Are they different? Can you give examples of differences that I
> might also make in my dialect of English?
Between [@<r>] and [r=]? There are no minimal pairs if that's what you
mean. The distinction is that for me, the sound in watER is a syllabic
r, just as the -le in little. [@<r>] indicates a modified schwa, which
my <er> isn't. For me /r=/ is to /r/ as /i/ is to /j/.
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