velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 9 15:39:43 UTC 2009


I was also not clear on what you meant. Since schwa is mid central,
and wedge is low back, the contrast is not just of height, and which
character stands for what vowel can't be inferred from the context.

Mark Mandel

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> Right on V, but @ is schwa, following Kirshenbaum's ASCII IPA
> (http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html).
>
> I should have added to the examples
>
> /h at Id/ Â (v.) "hide"
> /hVId/ Â (n.) "hide"
>
> Herb
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Gordon, Matthew J.
> <GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
>
> > Herb:=20
> > Could you clarify your notation? i think you intend @ for script a, the =
> > low back unrounded vowel, V for wedge. Is that right?

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