Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

> > << Also, I don't think I have [@] (or is that [2]?), I have [V]
> everywhere.
> > At least, that's if IPA Help is anything to go by. >>
> >
> > Actually, what's the deal with schwa and carrot?  I asked two of my
> > linguistics teachers, and all they can say is that carrot
> appears in stressed
> > syllables; schwa does not.  That can't be the only difference, can it?
> > Sometimes I pretend I can hear the difference, but it's hard to
> isolate...
>
> Um, there's the program "IPA Help" out there, and I'm going by the
> sounds it has. The sound it has for schwa is the sound I hear on "The
> Beatles Live at the BBC", where Paul says "riding on a bus" - the vowel
> in "bus". Very different from what I have in that place. Ergo, I
> transcribe what I say for "bus" as [bVs] - which is validated by IPA
> Help.
>
> It's really quite a useful program, IPA Help, but I forgot where I found
> it.
>
As I said previously, it's at http://www.sil.org