tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 18 00:22:18 1995
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Re: tlh-H phonology question
> I think that {o} and {oy} should be [o] and [oj] (or [O] and [Oj]),
> respectively. If Okrand's explanation makes it look as though {o}
> is normally pronounced [@U] or something, it's because he did not
> expect his audience to know anything about phonetics and phonology
> or, for that matter, to have any idea of IPA. I don't think that
> his choice of English examples should be taken too seriously.
>
> --'Iwvan
>
(please someone yell, if they think this doesn't belong
to the list...)
so how wide an approximation is allowed?
/a/ = any open unrounded vowel (front, central or back)?
/e/ = any front unrounded vowel between mid-open and mid-closed?
/i/ = any closed front unrounded vowel?
/o/ = any back rounded vowel between mid-open and mid-closed?
/u/ = any closed back rounded vowel?
what about length of /a/, /o/ and /u/?
(I myself think all vowels short sounds more aggressive...}}:-}
and while we're at it, do you consider
[dZab:I?ID] correct for jabbI'ID or only
[dZab|bI?ID] ? (don't know how to write
retroflex d in ASCII)
Marc
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Marc Ruehlaender [email protected]
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
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