Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 2003, 17:08 |
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At 00:42 7.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Mind you my 'lect_1 has 12 vowel
> > phonemes, distinguishing /8/ from /2_w/,
> > /a/ from /A/ and /3\/ from /2/, all 12 occurring
> > both long and short. OTOH [A(:)] and [Q(:)]
> > seem to be in complementary distribution.
>
>Well, as you will recall, I want to analyze my 'lect as having phonemic
>length, for a total of 18 vocalic phonemes (that includes the diphthong /au/).
Do you mean that you have both long and short /au/?
Not that you can't. Icelandic sure has.
/BP 8^)
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