Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 20:23 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Spackman" <ianspackman@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
> >
> >That is the phonetic realization, but I think the pair still counts as
> >minimal for T/D. The vowel length by itself is not phonemic;
> >[ti:T] and [tiD] are still understood as "teeth" and "teethe"
> >rather than the reverse.
>
> OK, just to confuse the issue, I have phonemic vowel length. :)
>
> Dam the river! /d&m/
> Damn the river! /d&:m/
Those are both [d&m] for me.
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