Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 23:52 |
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Joe Fatula wrote at 2003-03-24 16:09:47 (-0800)
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> Probably true, but it's not a change used by me. "pull" and "pool" are
> homophonous, but not "heel/hill", "peel/pill", "sale/sell", etc.
> Pronouncing "pull" with the vowel of "book" sounds strange to me, but I've
> heard it. 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.
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"Bull". (At least, in my (~RP) speech.)
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