Phonetics vs. Phonemics
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 23, 2006, 15:33 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On 2/23/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
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>>That reminds me - what's the most different allophones of a single phoneme
>>you know of (either qualitively or quantitively)?
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>The most different-seeming to me are [h] and [f] for Japanese /h/, but
>those aren't all that far apart really.
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Well, Spanish (and Gascon, I think) has an /f/>/h/ sound change, so it
does happen.
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