Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

Roger Mills said:
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> "r" is the bane of English phonemics (not to mention foreign learners).
It needn't be. Many of the problems arise from inadequate attempts to
incorporate heterogenous varieties into a single phonological description.
Other problems arise from attempts to describe English without
morphophonological units (or from attempts to describe morphophonological
units as though they were variational units).

-- Mark