Re: Butterflies
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 18, 2003, 17:09 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:01:18AM -0400, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> > Michael, can you give us some context? The only French word I can think
> > of with |ui| is |puis|, which I pronounce as [pHi], where [H] is a
rounded
> > jod.
Also: nuit, huit, lui and others.
> Hm. X-SAMPA [H] is listed as a "voiced labial-palatal approximant" -
> I'm not sure what the difference is between that and [w], since I'm not
> even sure how "velar" figures into a [w] sound.
[w] is labio-velar (rounded lips, slight constriction at the velum), [H] is
labio-palatal (rounded lips, slight constriction at the palate, or
alveo-palate area).
_w_ is to _u_ as _ [H]_ is to [y], or more simply, [H] is the "semi-vowel"
version of the high front rounded vowel [y] (Germ. written ü)
>
> BTW, what's a "jod"?
[jod] Just another name for a palatal semi-vowel [j] or written "y" in Engl.
etc. (From its name in the Hebrew alphabet; cf. Greek iota)
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