Re: The fourteen vowels of English?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 4, 2004, 8:36 |
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J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
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>Since you've included /Aj@/, why not include /aw@/ as in "sour"? Though I
>don't really understand why these are so often analyzed as one (compound)
>vowel sound and not as /Aj, aw/ + /@/.
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They are a tripthong. It's just the way they're pronounced, I
suppose.Both [Aj@] and [Aw@] are heading towards [A:], however, as is
the trend today(Monopthongising dipthongs/tripthongs). Hence, /O:/,
/O@/ and /U@/ are merged in my dialect, what was originally [E@] is
[E:], and [I@] is quite often [I:]. (especially finally - ear, year).
>I guess you merge the sounds of "war" and "door"?
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Almost everyone does. And that of 'pour'.
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