Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.

On Dec 11, 2007 9:43 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
>
> For other languages, there's an interesting distinction in Arabic
> between what I perceive as [&] (probably [a]) and [A].  If the
> character alif follows a consonant, you get the following distribution:
>
> After /r/, /l/ (most of the time), /?\/, /H/, /q/, /t_?\/, /d_?\/,
> /D_?\/, and /s_?\/ you get [A].
>
> After /t/, /k/, /b/, /d/, /s/, /S/, /z/, /Z/, /h/, /x/, /m/, /n/,
> /D/, /T/, /j/, /w/, /l/ (sometimes), /G/, /?/, and /f/ you get [A].
I presume that one of the "you get [A]" is supposed to be "you get
[&]"; not sure which, though. Pkease fix?

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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