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

> Date:         Sat, 7 Apr 2001 01:46:49 -0400
> From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
>
> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> >Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> >> >[I (LHM) wrote]
> >> >SAMPA [Q] is open back rounded --- don't you mean [A] there?
> >>
> >> Mm, no; 'pot', 'lot', 'rather' all have [Q], AFAIK. [A] is rare or non-
> >> existent in English dialects (right?).
> >
> >In SAMPA, [Q] is back open rounded, [A] is back open unrounded.  [A] is
> >the vowel I use in "father", "pot", "lot" (but not "rather" which uses
> >[&])>
Two issues here: What SAMPA [A] and [Q} denote, and which English
words have which. For the first, look what google just found for me:
<URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/~wjansen/onderwijs/tools/sampa.html>.

For the second, I hope Oskar will agree that Danish <har> is /hA?/,
and <h