Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 12:39 |
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At 13:00 2001-06-29 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Even in US phonemics, there were competing ways of representing the offglide
>or neutralization of vowels before /r/-- /fihr/ 'fear' springs to mind. (If
>your dialect was truly r-less, you could simply write /fih/, contrasting
>with /fij/ 'fee'
I take it you like this notation. So do I -- it meyks fohr a naysehr
rowman/fownemik speling riyfohrm than thowz horid "Ve" daygrafz ov "Nue
Speling" --, but I thought I was the only one.
/BP 8^)>
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X)
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