Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 1, 2003, 21:57 |
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Tristan wrote:
> One of my examples was 'unfortunately', which has the root 'fortune',
> in which '-tune' makes 'tchoon' in most
Like /fortSun/? I thought the second syllable was a schwa in most
dialects (/fortS@n/ or however the first syllable is pronounced in
various dialects). It is in mine.
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