Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 21:46 |
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Gah! How embarrassing! Let me redo the list:��> 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
[&].��There we go. Nice
catch!��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Dec 11, 2007, at 1∞30 PM,
Philip Newton wrote:��> 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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