Re: Vocab #4

Padraic Brown wrote:
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>    1. bunny / rabbit
il levoerinis, /i lEvWR'in/ = hare
il lepeors, /i 'lEpeWR/ = hare
la connea, /la 'kone@/ = coney
il conechoelis, /Il conExoWl/ = rabbit
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I never thought I'd say this, but I really like some of those clusters!

But tell me, am I right in thinking that /W/ represents the devoiced [w] in
'when', and /R/ a *voiced* uvular fricative?  When I try to pronounce the
/WR/ in 'levoerinis', for example, I'm tending to come out with an unvoiced
uvular fricative with a hint of labialisation (a delicious sound!), but is
this what you intended?  By enclosing the transcriptions in // rather than
[], are you indicating a phonemic representation rather than a phonetic one?

Jonathan.

'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
Auden/Britten, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'