John Cowan wrote:
>And Rosta scripsit:
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>>John Cowan:
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>>I don't understand. Even if AusE has /Q/ in "wrath", it still has a low
>>back vowel phoneme, and anyway, where is the anomaly.
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>Actually my point was that the phone [Q] appears in only a few words
>in AusE, so it is still fair to say (phonemic analysis aside) that
>it has no low back vowel phones.
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Since when? Short /Q/s are all [Q]s, aren't they? /wQt/ else is the
vowel in /nQt/ supposed to be?
>>As for /rQT/, that's
>>not an AusE preculiarity; rather, /raT/ is an AmE peculiarity. (Hence
>>British newspapers calling _Portnoy's complaint_ _The gripes of Roth_.)
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>I hear enough [rAT] and Bostonian [raT] to find the pun funny, but
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Okay, I'd only heard the Aussie and American pronunciations and assumed
the Brits used /A/. My mistake.
Tristan