Re: Natlang Help: Do you know of a language that...
| From: | Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 2, 2003, 20:07 |
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--- David Peterson wrote:
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> Anyway, to give you an idea, English distinguishes all of the
> following: bid /bId/, bead /bid/, bed /bEd/, bade /bed/ [bejd], then
> should /SUd/ and shooed /Sud/ [...].
> However, it never distinguishes (just looking at coda's now): /-eg/
> vs. /-Eg/,
Not a minimal pair, I know, but what about "egg" [Eg] or [Ejg] vs
"vague" [vejg]. Definitely a different vowel for me, though at the
moment I can't think of other words like "vague". Not a hundred
percent sure, though, that the diference is quality not quantity.
>/-eN/ vs. /-EN/ (or /-&N/, depending on which vowel you have),
> /-iN/ vs. /-IN/, /-Ug/ vs. /-ug/, /-UN/ vs. /-uN/ (we might not even
> have [-uN] or [-UN] anywhere), or /-ig/ vs. /-Ig/. This last one is
> more controversial since, as an English speaker, it's simple to
> distinguish between these last two (big /bIg/ vs. league /5ig/),
> but there don't appear to be any minimal pairs, and I, for one, can't
> think of a word that's *not* a proper name that ends in [-ig] other
> than "league" (can anyone else?).
[...]
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