R A Brown skrev:
>>> One rather well-known language which has this allophony
>>> is Tamil. /k/ is [k] word initially and in gemination,
>>> [g] after /n/ (which becomes [N] in this position) and
>>> [G] when ungeminated between vowels.
>
>
> Yep - what is generally transliterated as _itu_ (this) = ['IDU]
Isn't it rather ['IDM]?
> ===============================================
>
> Roger Mills wrote:
> > BP Jonsson wrote:
> >
> >>I suggest everyone reads J C Welss' "Accents of English",
> >>Cambridge 1982. That reading will preempt all YAEPTs
> >>for a long time to come.
> >>
> >
> > Oh!! An outcome devoutly to be wished for.........
>
> Amen!
>
That should of course be "J C Wells" and nothing else.
John C. Wells is Professor of Phonetics in the University of London,
Esperantist and spelling reformer. His homepage is here:
<http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/>
See especially:
<http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/accents_spellingreform.htm>
The beginnings of a presentation of my own modest proposal is
here: <http://wiki.frath.net/New_AngloSaxon_Spelling>.
--
/BP 8^)>
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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)