Re: The AmE 'o' sound
From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 11/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:00:33 +0100
Bob Cunningham:
>> About "/oh/ has moved", I later learned that, impossible as
>> it seems to believe, linguists actually conceive of phonemes
>> drifting from place to place in the vowel quadrilateral
>> while retaining the symbols that stood for them in their
>> original locations. How can that not lead to chaos?
>> (Rhetorical question.)
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:18:32 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net>: in sci.lang:
>This shows that he still doesn't have the slightest clue about the
>meaning of "phoneme."
It does. Googling with:
define:phoneme
results in
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=define%3Aphoneme&lr=
and a long of definitions with links.
Enjoy!
-- Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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