Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | Tri Stan <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 1:02 |
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> Tim May wrote:
> >Joe Fatula wrote (...)
> >>Can anyone think of another word that has this
> >>vowel before "l"? I'm wondering if the prescence
> >>of "l" has anything to do with this in my
> >>idiolect.
>
> >"Bull". (At least, in my (~RP) speech.)
>
> and "full"
>
> hmm, they all start with labials.
Indeed they do. The sound change that initially unrounded /U/ was not
as active in the vicinity of labials, as one might expect. Of course,
there are words with labials that don't have the change, like 'mum' or
'one' so I guess its one of those random sound changes that English seems
to like when splitting up phonemes (other egs for me incl. class /kl6:s/
vs mass /m&s/ or bad /b&:d/ vs dad /d&d/).
Tristan.
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