Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:38:37 -0500, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>> I know, I had a Spanish speaking girlfriend who couldn't even *hear* the
>> difference between [v] and [b]; everything was just [B] to her
>
>Did she have the same problem with [D] and [d]?  If not, I'd be a bit
>surprised.
Yes she did. I remember telling her about an Andalusian speaker I had met
that spoke an extremely marked dialect (such as [Bwerto] for 'vuelto'), who
notably pronounced /d/ as [D] in all positions. I said, "He always
said 'ðe' instead of 'de'..."; she replied, "what's the difference?". Darn.

>SAMPA for that is [j_0], just underscore and zero.
Thanks. That's darn bulky though, so I'm sure I'll end up writing [hj] to
avoid messing up the word too much. SAMPA doesn't really work when it comes
to super- and subscripts.

Óskar