Re: USAGE: English vowel transcription

Roger Mills wrote:

>That is true.  I'd suspect it's the influence of the spelling system, rather
>than something internalized.  As you may know, Chomsky & Halle's _Sound
>Pattern of English_ accounted for lots of English peculiarites by positing
>an underlying sound system in which, essentially, as I recall, the Great
>Vowel Shift had not taken place.
Yup. No GVS, and many of the final syllables had not yet been deleted, that
way stress is almost compeletely predictable. Basically, their book is a
better description of historical English phonology than syncronic English
phonology.

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