Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 1:54 |
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At 20:38 23.3.2003 -0500, Doug Dee wrote:
>[ A ] and [ Q ] have the same tongue position, low. [ O ] is higher. The
>vowel of "cut" is usually said to be [ V ], the unrounded counterpart of [ O ].
The transcription of _cut_ with [V] is a holdover from the 19th century.
Modern English mostly has [6] or even [@], depending on dialect, in this word
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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