Re: Vowel variations in Arabic

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:55:31 -0500, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:449c34F11r9uU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

[...]

> I can tell now that even within one person's speech /a/
> comes out two different ways depending on what precedes it--that after
> /q/, for instances, it's [a], while after /k/ it's closer to [A]? (Is
> [A] the symbol used for French "quatre" [kAtr]?

No; [A] is low, back, unrounded, the vowel that dictionaries
assign to <pas>. Dictionaries will tell you that <quatre>
has [a], though it seems to me that I've often heard a vowel
that's displaced a bit towards [æ] (low ASCII [&]), the
'cat' vowel.

[...]

Brian
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