Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | Jake X <starvingpoet@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 19:31 |
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From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 29 January, 2003 01:54
Subject: Re: IPA question
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:26:47PM -0800, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> /}/ root
> >
> >
> >I'm confused... which vowel is this?? In *my* English idiolect, the vowel
> >here would be [u], same as in "lute" or "good".
In my idiolect, lute and good don't rhyme.
root : [rut]
lute : [lut]
good: [gUd]
However, I am aware that this phoneme, which ranges from [u] to [U], changes
as you enter the US Midwest, so that my Ohioan grandmother says [rUt] (for
root)
and [rUf] (for roof), while I say [rut] and [ruf].
Jake
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