Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 8, 2001, 14:45 |
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David Peterson wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/7/01 9:10:00 PM, robert@APEXWOOD.COM writes:
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> << 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. >>
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> 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.
--
Robert
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