Re: Perfect Pitch
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 4:45 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
>Low front unrounded: a very rare vowel indeed. I can't think of any
>natlangs with this! (Common Turkic o-umlaut maybe?)>
Slip of the keyboard? I'm sure you meant _rounded_. From very early days in
linguistic coursework, I recall discussion of a German dialect with 4 levels
of phonemic front V (i e E æ, like Engl.), with a rounded/umlauted version
of each. (There were of course 4 corresponding back rounded vowels too).