Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

Paul Bennett scripsit:

> >You might consider the possibility that some of your examples contain an
> >/r/.
>
> Not in my non-rhotic lect they don't. And really, I'm trying to aim for a
> set that's rhoticity-agnostic.
I think Mark's point is that it may make sense to analyze some of those
non-rhotic sounds with an underlying /r/ *phoneme*, even if no r-ish
sound appears in the *surface* realization.  Doing this actually makes
things rhoticity-agnostic for the most part.

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