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Re: Allophones or Separate Phonemes?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, February 28, 1999, 23:16
Kristian Jensen wrote:
> That's true, the diacritic is a small T. But I could also have used > the symbol for a velar approximant with another dicaritic: a > diacritic for retraction, currently a small line beneath. Without > any specific sign for a pharyngeal approximant, options are > nummerous.
There's also a "more open" diacritic that looks like a small inverse c. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor