Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA

Quoting Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>:

> >>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
While [i] as an allophone of /i:/ is very rare in English, it does
exist. For example I have it in _demolished_.

> the same way as the difference between /p/-/b/ is
> a double opposition of voicing and aspiration.
Well, you certainly know that [p] occurs as an co-allophone of [p_h]
in certain positions, so this doesn't make sense either.

I think you're confusing "phonemic difference" with "differences
between most common realisations".

Adrian.