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Re: Butterflies

From:Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
Date:Thursday, September 18, 2003, 15:01
>Well, the X-SAMPA symbol for the high back unrounded vowel is [M]. But >I would expect -ui- in French to have a high front rounded vowel [y] >instead? Am I missing some subtlety associated with the sequence?
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. --- Shreyas

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>