Re: IPA/CXS questions
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6:36 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 01:08 -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> Still, in the normal way of
> > writing RP you can always work out from the symbols whether a length
> > mark should follow or not. (One common way of writing Australian English
> > doesn't mark length used by frex. the Macquarie Dictionary; it strikes
> > me as pretty silly because then the only phonetic difference
> > between /fVs/=[fa_"s] and /fAs/=[fa_":s] is not even mentioned.)
> >
> Umm, what words are these? fuss and farce?
Yes. Though actually, I'm wrong and "farce" should've been written
as /fas/ if we're going by the so-called Mitchell & Delbridge scheme
(which is the one used in the IPA), as opposed to the various revised
schemes which would denote them as /fas/ and /fa:s/ or /f6s/ and /f6:s/.
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Tristan