Re: Diphthongs (was Re: 3 q's - X-Sampa)
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 8, 2004, 9:44 |
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:22:46 +0200, M. Astrand <ysimiss@...> wrote:
>> What you put between the phonemic slashes // depends on how the phonemic
>> system of the language is represented: you could put /ai/ or /aj/
>> depending on how that offglide patterns. For the phonetic brackets
>> you'd put down whatever the actual sound is, which might be [j] or
>> [I_^] (i.e., non-syllabic [I]) or whatnot.
>
> Are there any natural languages that make the difference, having both
> /aj/ and /ai/? Or /aw/ and /au/?
I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that Greek kept some kind of
difference between /w/ (spelled digamma) and nonsyllabic /u/ (spelled
upsilon).
If only because digamma dropped in places upsilon didnt: cf. /newos/ >
/neos/ "new", beside /auos/ "dry" (and not */aos/, etc.
[Historically /au/ in /auos/ had an /s/ after it, but this was > /h/ and
long gone before digamma fell, wasnt it?]
*Muke!
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