Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 7, 2003, 20:02 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
> Joe wrote:
> > > Incidentally, I'd've interpreted "biro" as /biro/, rather than /bajro/
> > > which someone else said was the pronunciation. :-)
> >
> > [bAjr@u]
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> Well, [@u] is just an English way of pronouncing the phoneme /o/, yes?
> The same vowel as in, for example, "know" or "so"?
>
But you don't find [o] in English English. I mean, phonemes are usually
represented as (one of) their actual values, I thought.
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