Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 26, 2004, 12:32 |
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:18:13AM +0200, Christian Thalmann wrote:
> 2) I recorded a latter of similar words from
> different languages to demonstrate that I do
> distinguish all the vowels mentioned in 1).
> Explicitly, the words are: beat [i], bit [I],
> Beet [e] (High German), bed [E], Bett [E] (High
> German), bat [&], bätt [a] (Swiss German),
Huh. A word spelt |bätt| is pronounced [bat] in Swiss German?
Is this a case of the orthography not catching up to a sound change,
or just standard orthography applied to a non-standard dialect, or
what?
-Marcos
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