Re: OT: [Q] is a vowel?! (was Re: Articulatory phonetics (was Re: THEORY: unergative))

On Feb 23, 2004, at 3:12 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> At 03:15 23.2.2004, Trebor Jung wrote:
>> The result of reading Herman Miller's post
>> http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?
>> A2=ind0402d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=5802
>> makes me want to reform XS. I mean, who's ever heard of spelling a
>> vowel as
>> a consonant except in...XS?! Even English didn't get it this wrong...
>
> That's because germanicists traditionally
> transcribe "open o" as an o with a hook below.
> Uppergase Q vaguely resembles this sign.
As I've understood it, <open o> is represented in X-SAMPA by /O/. /Q/
is X-SAMPA for <turned script a>, the low back rounded vowel (cardinal
13). Which vowel is meant by Germanicists' <o with a hook>?

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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