Re: question on sampa representation

 --- Tri Stan <zsau@...> wrote:
> [Q] is rounded [A]. [O] is rounded [V]. [Q] is
> on the same height as
> [a]; [O] is on the same height as [E]. [O] is no
> more rounded [A] then [E]
> is unrounded true [&].
>
> Tristan
I don't know if this will help at all, but in my
dialect, as is true I believe in most Canadian
english, [O] only appears before [r\], in words like
"core" and "four".  It sounds more like [o] to me than
like anything else.  I think (but I'm not certain)
that [A] is the vowel I have in words like "father"
and "caught"/"cot" (which I pronounce the same).

Rachel (resisting the temptation to dig into other
aspects of English vowel pronunciation)

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