Re: allophones again, but English - not French
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 16:29 |
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Robert Jung wrote:
>Are these two thingies allophones or separate phonemes: /a/ [a], /A/ [A]? I
can't find any minimal pairs.
Neither. They're just variant ways of pronouncing the same phoneme depending
on dialect area, or even on individuals' speech. Usually written /a/. Depending
on which website's IPA sound samples you listen to, American English /a/ can be
either [a], [6] or [A].