Re: IPA griefs
| From: | jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 23, 2000, 21:24 |
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:
> Danny Wier wrote:
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> > (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_