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

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, April 7, 2001, 20:53
David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 4/5/01 10:05:16 PM, Barry_Garcia@MONTEREY.EDU writes: > ><< The World's Writing Systems book I have says that the turkish dotless I >is > >"close, back, unrounded" vowel. In the kirschenbaum system, it's /u-/. > >Apparently SAMPA doesnt have a way of representing it. >> > >No matter how much I unround my lips, the upside down "m" (the sound in >question) always sounds like [u] still. It seems like I can make the sound >independent of whatever my lips want to do. Maybe if I heard someone do >it...
Don't you think it's rather the ear-controlling part of your brain that refuses to note the difference. Our brains are, after all, designed to recognize phonemes, not phones. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.