Re: YAEPT:Re: Phonological musings (was: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton")
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 20:59 |
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:54:08 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
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>> Sorry, but no dialect I'm aware of has [we@] for 'were'. 'where', yes,
>> but not 'were'. 'Were' is [w3:], IME
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> That was my impression, too, from a US-POV. Also surprising was Paul
> Bennett's "[w6:]", perhaps a mis-typing? since [6] is IMO very much an
> [a]-like sound.
I'm not sure of the exact notation. It varies between something like [@]
and something more open than [@]. Maybe [e_x] and [E_x] would have been
better symbols to use? I'll have to figure out how to record sound on
Linux, and host some sound files somewhere...
Paul