Re: Diving In...

> Transcriptions between // are phonemic transcriptions. They don't really
> represent the actual sounds but only the contrastive elements of
> the language's
> phonology (the phonemes).

I see. I am aware of the difference between phones and phonemes etc., but it
was probably more a question of notation. So if I understand correctly":

[t]     represent a phonetic sound
/t/     represent a certain phoneme in a given language
<t> or "t" represents the written character "t"

When I first read the site I quoted, I assumed as much. However, since the
French page did use the "R" to note its rhotic, while no "r" was used, I was
kind of under the impression that phonetic characters were meant instead of
phonemes.

Maarten van Beek

P.S.
I did receive your private e-mail, but obvisouly I didn't reply to it...
Sorry about that. I think I am getting too much e-mail lately :-(

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