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Re: Cat phonemes

From:<li_sasxsek@...>
Date:Sunday, November 18, 2007, 18:45
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Shannon


> Don't forget that whatever phoneme they are pronouncing, they can
also

> pronounce it while purring, which sounds quite different,
> giving twice as many  effective phonemes.

So that would be [_R:]?

But wouldn't purring be some type of suprasegmental rather than a
phonemic distinction?