Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 17:50 |
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Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:16 +0300, John Vertical wrote:
>
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>>Yet another side question ... where does it stem to analyze English
>>diphthongs phonemically as vowel + glide?
[snip]
> I always thought that writing (e.g.) /aj/ or by Americans /ay/ was just
> an orthographical habit indicating the nature of the diphthong, and it
> was still considered to be a single nucleus.
That is my understanding also. I would normally write the second element
of /aj/ as i with an inverted breve beneath it. Yes, I know there is a
CXS convention for the latter - but the tradition on this list has been
simply to write the falling diphthongs with final |j| or |w|, without any
implication, as far as I was aware, of the second element being a glide.
--
Ray
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