Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 23, 2003, 16:55 |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:40:17AM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
> Could someone please let me know the way to represent in Sampa the GA
> pronunciation of the vowel in words like dog, long, cost, etc.
>
> The IPA symbol the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English uses for
> vowel in the above words in RP can be rendered as /Q/ in SAMPA; it uses
> the same symbol for the GA but followed by a colon, so should I render
> the GA vowel as /Q:/ ?
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> Thank you for your reply and there's no need to go into a discussion on
> English pronunciation, I'm just interested in SAMPA representation
[snip]
OK, I'm not even going to mention English pronunciation, but I *really*
want somebody who knows better to clarify exactly what is the difference
between XSAMPA [A], [O], and [Q]. IPA vowels continue to elude me. :-(
T
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