Re: Redefining [a] and [æ]? or using a better vowel quadrilateral?

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 23:09:30 +0100, Richard Wordingham wrote...
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know of anyone who recognizes turned-a as an English
phoneme. The English view is that <hiccup> is /'hIkVp/.

I transliterated to the IPA system.

You simply made a mistake: the *phoneme* in question is IPA
inverted-v, Kirshenbaum and SAMPA /V/, not IPA turned-a,
SAMPA /6/.

Are you promoting a phonetic traditional orthography? When vowels change, transcriptions must change. Otherwise, we may as well use modified orthography. I deliberately chose to use /ɐ/ rather than traditional, but now wrong, /ʌ/.

Richard.

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