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Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA

From:Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>
Date:Monday, August 19, 2002, 21:32
>>But I prefer to write /i:/ rather than /iy/, assuming the length >>is phonemic [which it isn't in English
It IS. The difference between /i:/-/I/ is at the same time one of length and one of tenseness, in the same way as the difference between /p/-/b/ is a double opposition of voicing and aspiration.
>Another British usage has the actual IPA symbols-- /bid/ vs. /bId/ (the >latter with "small cap. i"), or /red/ 'raid' vs. /rEd/ (IPA epsilon) 'red'
The vowel in "raid" is not a monophthong tense e (that's the vowel in "burn"), but one of the three I-final diphthongs. The vowel system of English is not as chaotic as some not-very-intelligent analyses I've seen too frequently suggest. The scheme that follows shows its internal logic: RP ENGLISH VOWELS: a) Unstressed /I/ evenIng /@/ Alike /U/ tO do [/(@)l/ bottLE] [/(@)m/ bottOM] [/(@)n/ lengthEN] b) Stressed -Monophthongs (long/tense) /i:/ bEAt /3:/ bIRd /A:/ bARt /O:/ bOARd /u:/ bOOt (short/lax) /I/ pIt /e/ pEt /&/ pAt /A/ pOt /V/ pUtt /U/ pUt -Diphthongs (I-final) /eI/ bay /aI/ by /OI/ boy (@-final) /I@/ pEER /E@/ pEAR /U@/ pOOR (U-final) /@U/ nO /AU/ nOW -Triphthongs /aI@/ fIRE /AU@/ OUR Rhotic dialects turn the scheme of stressed long/tense monophthongs into: (non-rhotacized) /i:/ bEAm /A:/ pALm /u:/ bOOm (rhotacized) /3:_r/ bIRd /A:_r/ bARd /O:_r/ bOARd Cheers, Javier

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