Re: IPA griefs

> >Oh oh!  I know a minimal pair:
> >
> >azure [@`Zu:r]
> >adjure [@`dZu:r]
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
>
> Wonderful!  That one works in my dialect.  But I don't think it works in
> alot of others because there's more than one way to pronounce "azure".
Well, since there's no question of [b] and [?] being allophones, we could
get the near-minimal pair of:

badger [`b&dZr=]
azure  [`&Zr=]

(if you stress the first syllable; substitute [@] for [r=] in Britain]

Such near-minimal pairs are object acceptable if a true pair can't be
found.

>
> Adam
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Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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