Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 1:13 |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:10:41PM -0800, Joe wrote:
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> Oh yes...you're not a native speaker, are you?
Nope. :-)
> Ok. Well, [Q] is the rounded version of [A], which is a low back vowel.
> And [O] is slightly higher than [Q]. Does that help?
OK, so I think [A] is still what I think it is. *Phew*. :-P So [Q] and
[O] are rounded versions of [A]... but I'm not sure I know the difference
yet. I've tried listening to IPA sound samples, but they contradict each
other so I really am quite suspicious of IPA vowels ATM. :-/
T
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