Re: Rounded /j/?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 2:24 |
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FFlores wrote:
> I mean, the * in the series /i, u, y/ :: /j, w, */.
> I know the sound is perfectly possible, but I wonder
> if this sound is an independent phoneme in any natlang.
French. The symbol used in IPA looks like an inverted <h>. Various
symbols are used in ASCII-IPA schemes, such as /j<rnd>/ /;h/ /h&/, /w"/
and /H/. It occurs, for instance, in the French word <huit>, eight.
/j<rnd>it/, I think.
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