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Re: E and e (was: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful))

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 14:35
BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 20:18 2002-04-29 +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote: > >>Does seem like the IPA could do with a sign for this 'lax [E]' then. I >>guess >>there's at least a diacritic for retracted? > >I doubt it ever contrasts with cardinal [E].
And the IPA's got a policy of not including signs for phones that never contrasts with the closest thing that does have one. Should've remembered that.
> The sound most Swedes use for >'e' in 'gosse' is essentially this sound. I have on occasion used >mirror-image [e] -- actually a retracted [e] -- for this sound.
I'd be one of those Swedes. If [mirrored e] is retracted [e], what's [mirrored epsilion]? Retracted [E] would suggest itself, but I assume that's not so? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
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