Re: Allophony
| From: | FFlores <fflores@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 7, 1999, 0:40 |
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Kenji Schwarz <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.
So, are there no clues about the phonetic quality of these reconstructed
vowels? (BTW I think I saw the Japanese site Nik mentioned... Takasugi
Shinji, right?)
--Pablo Flores
http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/