Re: Some natlang questions?

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.)

~DaW~


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