Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 16:50 |
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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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