Re: Non-syllabic [Y] ?

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:12 -0800 (PST), <ekkilu@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Feb 26, 7:45 am, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<a7ce1237-f473-41cc-8372-f1286d2ab...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Sonja Elen Kisa <sonj...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's the place of articulation for a non-syllabic
(approximant) version of the vowel [Y] (i.e. a
near-close near-front rounded vowel)? Another way to
describe it would be a lax version of the labial-
palatal approximant.

[...]

There is no basic symbol for that sound (upside-down [h]
is the symbol for the approximant version of the "tense"
vowel [y]), but you could just put an arch under the
small capital [Y].  The under-arch indicates that the
vowel is not syllabic, which can be interpreted as it
being an approximant instead.

Let me hope Google can display it:

[ʏ̯]

It displayed correctly for me, though it may not show up
properly in this response.

Brian
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