Re: Vowels?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 26, 2002, 3:55 |
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Am 26.01.02, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > Am 26.01.02, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:
> >
> > > > English is full of syllabic nasal consonants.
> > >
> > > Dialects of English are full of syllabic nasal consonants.
> >
> > Six of one...
>
> Huh?
You both said essentially the same thing.
>
> > > Tristan [tSr\Ist@n] (or, to pick a word that lacks the 's',
> > > Kryton=[kr\aid/t@n] (d/t meaning either a [t] or a [d]))
> >
> > For me, [tRIst&n] and [kRajtOn] (I think). You chose two
> > marked words, names. They rarely follow the rules precisely
> > anyway. How about "piston" or "glutton"?
>
> Just like the examples I provided before: ["p_hIst@n], [glAt/d@n].
OK. Does your dialect have any syllabic nasals (or other sounds)?
If this is representative, yours doesn't seem to distinguish
what for many of us is a reduced syllable in unmarked words. For
me, [pIstn] and [glV?tn] or [glV??n].
> Tristan
Padraic.
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