Re: Vowels?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 24, 2002, 7:16 |
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En réponse à Chris Palmer <cecibean@...>:
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> No line need be drawn: [R] is a vowel, just as much as [i] is.
But that's only true for Americans which have a rhotic dialect. British English
[R] can only be used as a consonant (writer is pronounced there /RaIt@/,
not /RaItR=/). Don't presuppose that what is true of our dialect is true
everywhere. The line you so much want to draw is drawn at different places by
different languages. So why drawing a line which is so much language-dependent
when talking about phonology in general?
> Traditional
> grammarians have it that the vowels are "a, e, i, o, u and sometimes
> y",
> but from an articulatory point of view, that's not the case.
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Of course not, since what you refer to is only an orthographic matter.
Christophe.
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