Re: Pronouns revised and word generation
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 4, 2002, 0:45 |
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Pavel Iosad quoted someone, saying:
> > --Not rare to linguistics, but rare to my language.
> > Its only real use was in the reflexive affix. Do you
> > know of any sounds that appear only five times in a
> > language? So I went with /h/.
Australian English has one word with /Q:/ in it: `gone'. Dictionaries that
use the IPA, too scared to admit long-short distinctions when they're
there, give the pronounciation as /gOn/, but it by no means rhymes with
either `born' or `tonne'. And it's not going out of use.
Tristan