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From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:46 AM
> > Here is the transliteration of the vowel system :
> > /i/ --> |i|
> > /e/ --> |e|
> > /ei/ --> |ê|
> > /@/ --> |à|
>
> I kind of find it strange to use an accented letter to mark the schwa. The
> schwa is to me the quintessence of the unstressed letter, and marking it
with
> an accented letter is to me contradictory with its very nature. I'd rather
see
> the schwa marked with a non-accented letter. The choice would be thus:
> - whether to switch |a| and |à|,
> - or to use another letter for /@/.
To mark /@/ with |à| is not as strange as it may seem. At least I saw a
report of a linguist who made a field study of Kuot language in Papua-New
Guinea, and she did just this! Look at
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/evali/kuot.htm
> Christophe.
Cheers,
Yitzik
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