Re: YAGPT: Carsten (was Re: Vertical script)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>
>On 9/19/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
>> Christian is /"krIstja:n/ in
>> Standard German (that's indeed /"kRIStja:n/ in the South*)
>
>Are you implying that /r/ and /R/ are separate phonemes, or did you
>mean to provide a [phonetic] rather than a /phonemic/ transcription?
I assumed that /r/ was a more accurate descritpion of the phoneme in one
dialect, and /R/ in the other.





Paul