Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 23, 2000, 6:41 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> Not *that* vowel again!
For myself, it seems to be simply /&~/, that is, the only difference
between the vowels of "can" [in the sense of metal container - in the
auxiliary, it's often reduced to a schwa] and "cat" is nasalization and
length (related to the allophonic shortening before unvoiced obstruents)
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