Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics

Philip Newton skrev:
> On 2/23/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
>>I think of the vowel as "u", too.   (Incidentally, is the
>>/o/ vowel also unrounded [7]?)
>
>
> I think not. I'm not sure whether /o/ is [o] or [O], though, or
> something in between -- but I do think it's rounded.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>
>
The English vowel in LOT is unrounded [A] in
most American dialects but rounded [Q] in
most (all?) British and Southern Hemisphere
dialects.

I suggest everyone reads J C Welss' "Accents of English",
Cambridge 1982.  That reading will preempt all YAEPTs
for a long time to come.

--
/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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