Re: New Try from a New Guy

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:58:00AM -0800, Michael David Martin wrote:
[snip]
> 2. I understand the differences between phones and phonemes, but I'm not
> sure if I should be putting [ ] or / / around the sounds in the above chart.
> For example, I'm using [3] and representing it with uh, but when I listen to
> the sounds on the IPA web site the sounds [@], [3], [6] and [V] all sound
> close enough to me to be the same letter. I can hear the differences, I just
> don't think the differences are big enough. So, I would consider these four
> phones to be a single phoneme, correct? But if I write /3/ how does someone
> else know that [@], [3], [6] and [V] are all included?
[snip]

You could list [@], [3], [6], [V] as allophones, and say that they
correspond to the same phoneme, /3/.


T

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