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Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 1:21
Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:03:58 -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust > <j_mach_wust@...> > wrote: > >> Regarding SAMPA (or CXS or X-SAMPA): I always confuse the digits used >> for >> the representation of sounds, mainly '2' and '9' which I use most. Has >> anybody already suggested the use of e\ and E\? >
Learn French. I believe it has [2] for _deux_ and [9] for _neuf_. Alternatively, [2] is the secondary second cardinal vowel. Or going anticlockwise (which seems to be the normal way, starting at [i]), you come to [2] before [9], and 2 is lower than 9.
> I've seen /E\/ used for the vowel between /e/ and /E/, likewise /O\/ for > the vowel between /o/ and /O/, and /A\/ for the vowel between /a/ and > /A/, > that is a tense /6/. I'm not sure how standardised this is, but I've seen > it in more than one place.
Hmm, I've never seen that (but maybe I was asleep). It seems odd, unless some language in question distinguishes /e/ from /E/ from something in between, because if you've only got one mid vowel, you generally use /e/. -- | Tristan. | To be nobody-but-yourself in a world | kesuari@yahoo!.com.au | which is doing its best to, night and day, | | to make you everybody else--- | | means to fight the hardest battle | | which any human being can fight; | | and never stop fighting. | | --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany" | | | | In the fight between you and the world, | | back the world. | | --- Franz Kafka, | | "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days"

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