Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)

Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>:

> >>caeruleancentaur wrote:
>
> >>For me, "dance" has the same vowel sound as is found in ant, aunt,
> >>answer, pants, rancid, etc.  It seems to be a more closed sound.
> >>Does anyone know what I am talking about?
>
> >Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>
> >As far as I can tell, [&] seems to break in American dialects before
> >nasals.  So, 'dance' is /d&ns/ [d&@ns].  That's just from my
> >rightpondian perspective though.
>
> That is some help, thanks.  The X-SAMPA chart that I have gives the
> Swedish word "drømme" as the example for /&/.  That was no help to me
> at all.
As has been pointed out '&' is one of the signs differing in meaning in X-SAMPA
and CXS.

The claim X-SAMPA [&] occurs in Swedish "drømme" is bewildering, however, since
"drømme" isn't a Swedish word; we don't even have the letter 'ø'. It might be
Danish.

The closest thing in Swedish is _drömma_ "to dream", but the vowel in the first
syllable is [2] in standard pronunciation, and not X-SAMPA [&] in any 'lect I'm
aware of.

                                                    Andreas