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

Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> And what could be "indeterminacy in French vowels" ?
> I'm French and just cannot understand what it is
> about. If there was an example, perhaps I could.
From the mouth of the horse, or at least from the text of the original X-SAMPA
proposal:

"In deference to the requirements of those working on French, SAMPA has defined
a special role for the forward slash, / (ASCII 47), namely as a marker of
certain vowel archiphonemes or indeterminacies, e.g. maison /mE/zO~/. It is of
course also widely used as a delimiter of phonemic transcriptions."

I don't feel appreciably wiser, but then I don't know French (despite what my
sister would tell you!).

                                              Andreas

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