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

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 16:50
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:18:34 -0700, Philippe Caquant
<herodote92@...> wrote:

> I wonder how the chart designers decided > when a phoneme has to be considered as a variant (thus > using diacritics) and when it is a phoneme of its own, > requiring a special line in the chart. Sure, one had > to decide.
Simple. If any attested language has a phonemic distinction between two sounds, the IPA makes that distinction. It's as easy as that. Paul

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