Re: question on sampa representation

Tri Stan scripsit:

> 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/).
"One" may have still been [o:n] when /U/ was unrounded.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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