Re: This week on Dancing with the Stars Re: The Business Memoir - the ``whom'' question

28 Oct 2006 06:41:44 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

How does IPA 2005 differ from the last revision (1996)? And obviously
it's _not_ clear about what IPA symbols mean, or else you wouldn't be
claiming they mean something different from what everyone else takes
them to mean.

The 1993/1996 version at
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAChart96.pdf is no
different for vowels than the 2005 chart.
Also available in HTML at
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/unicode_ipa-chart.htm

This is interesting:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec5/ipavsna.htm
in that it talks about this different interpretation of [a] and [&].
"[a] is a front vowel in the IPA chart and central in the tic-tac-toe
chart. In the IPA chart, [æ] is a second-class citizen squeezed in
between [a] and []. "

It also goes into tense and lax vowels, which has always been unclear
to me.

See also
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/notes.htm
for the full table of contents.

It also says:
"Phonologically, most languages don't make a difference between front
and back low vowels -- whether their single low vowel [a] should be
treated as front or central or back is not a pressing question. "
.... which I might use as a justification for placing Portuguese /a/ as
central low, not front low, although I otherwise advocate IPA.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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