Re: the sound [a]
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 2:40 |
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Akhilesh Pillalamarri scripsit:
> Everywhere I've read, it says the sound [a] is the most common sound
> in human speech; my personal experience with language agrees with
> that. I wonder now, is the sound [a] found in every language?
Well, some kind of low unrounded vowel is very common. I personally
don't have [a] except in a few diphthongs, only [A] and [&].
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