Don't touch my phonemes (was: minimal pairs ex: PIE e/o

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Sun Dec 3 21:28:01 UTC 2000


Robert Whiting <whiting at cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> . . . you may have noticed that IPA is the International PHONETIC
> Alphabet, not the *International PHONEMIC Alphabet. . . .

And yet this here booklet "The Principles of the International Phonetic
Association" (1949, reprinted 1974) contains both narrow (phonetic) and
broad (phonemic) transcriptions in IPA.

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Anton Sherwood  --  br0nt0 at p0b0x.com  --  http://ogre.nu/



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