Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics (was: apparently bizarre 'A's)
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 25, 2006, 17:06 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 2/25/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
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>>BTW, I would level -our, -or, -er and -re, as well as -ar, all to just
>>-r myself ;)
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> That would be the same -ar that y'all pronounce as /a:/? Seems confusing. :)
No, no - I'm talking about unstressed word _final_ only. I pronounce
them all as [@], and my west-country & rural Midlands fellow countrymen
say [@`], and presumably Murkans will have [r\=] or some similar sound.
Where |ar| is pronounced [A:], [A`] or whatever, I would of course
happily write 'ar'.
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>>But your scheme is doomed to failure on both sides of the Pond with all
>>those 'furrin' diacritics!
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> Yeah, diacritics are a no-no. But what got me was the odd choice of
> digraph in the basic Roman version of ʒ - cg? gj?
Yes - 'cg' denoted a sound similar to [dZ] in Old English IIRC and 'gj'
would suggest something similar to me also.
But I'd better stop, otherwise this'll turn inti yet another English
spelling reform thread ;)
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