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Re: IPA griefs

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Monday, October 23, 2000, 21:24
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Danny Wier wrote: > > > (To comment on an earlier post, English /Z/ and /dZ/ are really > > allophonic; I can't think of a single minimal pair right offhand.) > > Doesn't follow :-) > > The reason there are no minimal pairs is because /Z/ has limited > distribution in English words [almost all occurences are associated with > a limited set of affixes], and is therefore unlikely to have a minimal > pair with /dZ/. Not because they're allophonic.
Oh oh! I know a minimal pair: azure [@`Zu:r] adjure [@`dZu:r] :-) Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_