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Re: Some natlang questions?

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Friday, July 13, 2001, 16:24
Danny Wier wrote:
>From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" > >| Are these (/ti/, /di/, etc.) really the phonemic analyses, or just the >| systematic values of the kana? > >I used the wrong symbol; I forgot how to indicate transliteration. Those >are >the systematic values, rather than the traditional romanization, again >"chi", >"ji", "shi", and for <tu>, "tsu", and for <hu>, "fu". > >| To sidetrack a little --- Wells waffles a little on the values of the >| Mandarin Chinese phonemes that are written as <x q j> in Pinyin. What >| would they be in IPA? > >The majority of descriptions I've seen give the c-curl for <x>, the t + >c-curl >for <j>, and the t + c-curl + superscript h for <q>. (Indicentally, >c-curl, >z-curl, t + c-curl and d + z-curl are found in Polish.)
What are these "curls"? Is c-curl = c-cedilla? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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