Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?

From: Travers Naran (tnaran_at_direct.ca)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: 10 Dec 2004 16:44:53 -0800

Bart Mathias wrote:
> Travers Naran wrote:
> >>[...]
>
> >[...] the hardest part for English speakers of French: the phonemes.
> > The phonemes (bits of sounds that make up a language) [...]
>
> I've encountered that use of "phoneme" in things written by people
> involved in speech synthesis on the computer, but it's not correct
for
> "phoneme" as a linguistic term. That would be a "phone/allophone,"
and
> indeed some of the French ones are hard for English learners of
French.

See what my computational linguistics courses get me? :-) That is good
to know. So the individual sounds are more properly called phones?
Allophone: doesn't that mean a sound alike?

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