Re: CHAT: _Describing Morphosyntax_
| From: | Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 30, 2004, 16:36 |
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:50:15PM -0500, Mark P. Line wrote:
> The IPA is for phonetic transcription, although the symbols are often
> adopted for the representation of phonemes and morphophonemes when the 26
> letters can't be made to suffice.
>
> Payne's examples are phonemic or morphophonemic, not phonetic.
>
> It's not necessary for you to be able to put specific sounds to the
> examples he gives in order to understand the points he's making about
> morphosyntax.
Well, that depends on one's learning style, really. I personally
can't take one of his examples into my brain unless I slow down and
actually pronounce it. Otherwise my eyes just tend to skip over
all the pretty symbols in their mad rush to read further.
I pronounce all the furrin-sounding names in fantasy novels, too,
usually making up a consistent system of pronunciation for them
as I go along - often aloud :) And I'm terrible at reading poetry
since it doesn't work when speed-read and I rarely read it aloud.
Amanda
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