Re: some more Irish vowels

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:21:14 -0500, Nathan Sanders
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In article <yoc2fd0hbjg3.5tizofywqav0.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:35:34 -0500, Nathan Sanders
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sci.lang:

In article <62b8o2hl3cli0nj64nc4q9vuh3ij0uo6tr@xxxxxxx>,
Ruud Harmsen <realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

16 Dec 2006 07:29:31 -0800: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Perhaps Nathan can tell us whether Jonathan is a Boston(-area) native,
which would throw _all_ his vowels way off of GenAm (and of NYC, too)..

He's from New Hampshire, but has no glaring NH-specific features in
his English.

His IPA chart is quite impressive (better than I could do---there are
a lot of sounds I simply cannot produce on demand, like my nemesis the
alveolar trill).

I like his vowel chart: his understanding of the symbols is
very close to mine.

I'd like to take all of the credit (he took both phonetics and
phonology from me), but the simple fact is that he is very bright,
gifted, and motivated. Too bad he wants to go into architecture
instead of linguistics!

Ah, a true structuralist!

Brian
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