Re: IPA/CXS questions
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6:23 |
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On 12/8/05, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
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> Tristan wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 23:04 -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > > Not IMD; "bird" and "encumbered" and "burred" are a three-way perfect
> > > rhyme. But that way lies YAEPT.
> >
> > I don't mean to take you up on the YAEPT, but I am slightly curious---is
> > it really a perfect rhyme, and the difference in stress doesn't get in
> > the way?
> Agree on that; false rhyme at best.
They don't actually rhyme in the sense that I could make a poetic couplet
out of them, no, but the last syllable of "encumbered" is phonetically
identical with the word "bird": despite the lack of stress in the former,
the vowel quality is not reduced. It's the same vowel as in "heard",
"cured", and "demurred", but, perhaps oddly, not "lured", which has a [u] in
it.
I find the non-rhotic version of words like "bird" to sound strangely
exotic; I'd expect [bV:d] or [bU:d] but the actual vowel seems to be not
quite either of those but something in between.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>