Re: Allophony
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 6, 1999, 23:45 |
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Kenji Schwarz wrote:
> The Old Japanese (reconstructed) vowels that are customarily reprsented
> with umlauts are NOT fronted. The mark was originally meant just as a
> diacritic to distinguish them from the "other" /i o e/, and wasn't meant
> to suggest a particular phonetic shape.
Oh, so /i"/ and /i/ merged, but what exactly /i"/ was is not known? Do
I understand you correctly?
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