Re: New Try from a New Guy

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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:06 PM

> lurking, perhaps he or a friend could help.)  I assume you get from
Catalina
> to the mainland now and again,
    Ha! :) Sorry, I just found this funny, but of course you had no way to
know. I don't live on Catalina Island. I live in Hemet, which is just NE of
Temecula. My lodge's name is Temecula/Catalina Island because the lodge on
Catalina was about to go under when the Masonic club in Temecula was looking
to start a lodge. The guys in Temecula convinced Catalina Island lodge to
move their charter over here to be taken over by the Temecula Masons.

> so if you have the time, it wouldn't be out
> of order to visit one of the universities/colleges, hunt up a phonetics
> teacher or bright grad student, and see what could be done.
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    I did contact Josh Brandt-Young from the list and he helped me out a
good deal. I should have another stab at the vowels ready soon.

> [Snip discussion of [@], [V], etc.]
    I have decided it would be easiest to not worry about defining
allophones and just stick to the representation of /@/.

> That's pretty standard US, and coincides with what I've always used.  A
lot
> of
> people seem to have the same vowel in father and cot [A], and
> _supposedly_ the/a Calif. dialect also has [A] in caught.
    Yes, that is correct for me: 'cot' and 'caught' would both be [kAt], and
'father' is something like [fADr] (I'm just not sure about the second
syllable).

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Michael David Martin, Master Mason
Temecula/Catalina Island Lodge #524
Free & Accepted Masons of California