Re: Warter, warter everywhere

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Mike Wright wrote:

Bart Mathias wrote:

Mike Wright wrote:

Bart Mathias wrote:

[...]
Would you buy /'mowr/ for "mower"?

Not /'mo#wr-/? (If /r/ represents the glide, that is. Can there be
glide clusters in English--or in any other language?)

I'm unfamiliar with /#/, which never came up in Phonology 1 (or anything
I've done since),

The ASCII IPA site has that as "used to represent a syllable or word
boundary."

but what I had in mind was two syllables, /mo/
followed be /wr/, where /r/ is the nucleus vowel.

Right. I've been writing /r-/ (properly "syllabic r") for the nucleus
vowel and /r/ for the glide. I don't know how else to distinguish them,
lacking contrasting symbols, like /j/ vs. /i/ and /w/ vs. /u/.

While you were away, we took to writing [R] for the vowel and [r] for
the consonant.

And how to distinguish the vowel from the glide? Or, can we always tell by position relative to other vowels? (In which case, why distinguish /j/ from /i/ an /w/ from /u/?)

Syllable boundary is usually <.> or <$>.

So, what should be used to indicate retroflexion?

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Mike Wright
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