Re: Russian vowel <bI>

Wiktor S. kirjoitti:

It's quite frequent to find linguists who talk about, e.g., [a] "as
the most common vowel in world's languages" but omit to mention that
before arriving at that "fact", they've had had to filter out both
subject-to-subject and occasional variation, and further, choose an
IPA symbol more because of its easy availability on their typesetters
than because of its appropriateness for the purpose.

What symbol do you find more appropriate for the sound [a]?

You misunderstood me... I meant that often the symbol "a" is chosen whether or not it is appropriate--just because it's the most convenient symbol available. That doesn't really matter for a phonetician, who never takes *transliteration* so seriously (it's merely a convenient tool of laying out your data), but a linguist might make the mistake of assuming that the [a] of language L1 is "the same" (in some mysterious way) as the [a] of language L2.

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