Re: Lenition
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 0:09 |
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Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> Another standard vernacular use is with 'a': /{/ is a 'hard a', /A:/ a
> 'soft' one (e.g. in words like 'fast', Americans pronounce the a hard,
> but we have a soft one).
Anglo-American for that is "flat a" for /&/ and "broad a" for /A/.
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