Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 9, 2000, 15:40 |
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:46:46 -0700, dirk elzinga
<dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:
>Hey.
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>Interesting that in the discussion on pedagogical methodology this
>provocative statement of John's slipped by without comment ...
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> > In particular, the phoneme may be dead [...]
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>Dirk (who, BTW, agrees with this sentiment)
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I got a couple days behind and waiting until I was caught up before posting.
Aren't phonemes defined as the sounds of a particular language which a
naive monolingual can distinguish? If so, then phonemes definitely have a
psychological reality.
Jeff