Re: USAGE: Adapting non-Latin scripts

On 5/24/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> For American English, perhaps, but "hiccup" ["hIka_"p], with /V/ in an
> unstressed syllable, is a good exception to that rule for Australian
> English, and I think some/most/all British English.
Good example, even in GAE -  hiccup is ['hIkVp] rather than ['hIk@p] . Hm.

I could still argue that the difference is not phonemically
significant, since I can't think of any minimal pairs, but now you've
gone and cast doubt on a long-held assumption and I'm no longer
confident in my knowledge of my own native language.

Thanks a lot.

:)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>