Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: THEORY: Re : Re: Re : THEORY: Semivowels

From:From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html <lassailly@...>
Date:Thursday, September 9, 1999, 19:33
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 09/09/99 20:13:38  , Danny a =E9crit :

> Technically, *our* (that is, British and American English) /r/ before=20
vowels=20
> is a semivowel of sort, the semivocalic version of /@`/ in "her first=20
nurse=20
> works early". This is the "retroflex schwa" vowel of not only English,=20
but=20
> Mandarin. And no other langauges I can remember. > =20
yuk.
> Oh and by the way, I think the SAMPA symbol for the semivocalic French=20 > u/German u-umlaut is h\ (h-backslash). At least assuming that the=20
backslash=20
>=20 > most often indicates an inverted letter. > =20
that's the everplotting anglo-saxons' scribble for it. the true, uncorrupted symbol is "u" (as in french).
> Danny > =20
mathias