Re: Vowels?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 24, 2002, 3:27 |
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Am 23.01.02, Chris Palmer yscrifef:
> No line need be drawn: [R] is a vowel, just as much as [i] is. 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.
The line, then, is artificial. Same should apply to L, S, Z, M,
N, NG, etc.
> (In addition to the tongue articulation difference, though, [R] as I say
> it has rounded lips.)
Weird! ;) Mine only round for the wr- group.
> Chris
Padraic.
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