Re: German and English (was Re: Losing languages ...)
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 25, 2003, 8:58 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Joe wrote:
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> > That's OE |ea|[&a]>[i:], don't ask me how.
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> &a > &@ > &: > E: > e: > i:. The phoneme marked & may be E *anyway*, so it
> could be even simpler.
I don't think anybody knows for sure the exact phonetic value of OE |ea| and
|eo|. As for all the rest, I think Elliot's explanations with correcting /a:/ to
/aj/ are good.
-- Yitzik
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