Roger Mills wrote:
>Mark J. Reed wrote;
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> I am, honestly, not
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>>trying to start YAEPT, but does /Q/ really contrast with both /A/ (AH)
>>and /O/ (AWE) in RP? Are there minimum triples?
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>How about "law" [Q]???? vs. "father?/dance, grass" [A]??? vs. "pot" [O]??
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law would be [O:], pot would be [Q].
>Or would law and pot differ only as to long/short [O]?? (I'm fairly sure
>that they're Q:O in Proper Bostonian)...And RP "father" may have [a]; but I
>think dance and grass do have [A]...
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Dance, grass, and father all have the same vowel. As contrasted to cat
or matter.