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Re: (YAEPT?) Pattern exemplifying as many vowel phonemes as possible?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 14:58
On Dec 12, 2007 9:30 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:

> What pattern [...] can be used to exemplify as many vowel phonemes as > possible, to demonstrate the contrastiveness? > > The best I've come up with so far is /b_t/ [...] > > The only phonemes from the standard lexical sets that don't make words > - including "common" (FSVO) proper nouns - are [...] CHOICE [...]: no > [...] *boit
What, no Boyts out your way? Fairly common surname around here, though not as much so as the voiced version (Boyd). what about /k_n/? Kin, ken, can, con, kern, keen, cane, Khan, cone, coon, kyne, coin, cairn, corn, Coors .. any improvement over b_t?. There's no STRUT or MOUTH ("to cunn", obviously the infinitive form of the gerund "cunning"! And "cown", which strove with "kyne" and "cows" as a third plural form! ) So close with "crown" and "gown"... still no FOOT... no NEAR (although if someone told me that "kiern" were a word in the English of northern Britain/Ireland I would believe them...) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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