Re: YAEPT: OMFG I'm a mutant!!! (was Re: Advanced English to become official!)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 0:43 |
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:17:37 -0400, Christopher Wright
<dhasenan@...> wrote:
> Schwa is a reduced vowel;
Schwa is a mid central vowel. In English, a short schwa is the realisation
of several reduced vowels.
> in spectrograms,
> you always tell it because it's extremely short
Not always so. /@:/ exists in the Real World, including in Sinhalese.
> Are you using different definitions for [@] and [V]? I'm not certain that
> English has a phonemic schwa, though you'd probably want it for some
> syllabic consonants at least.
Eh? Generally in English one is left with a choice *between* schwa and
syllabic consonants, depending on which dialect you take to be canon. I
don't understand this part.
Paul
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