[Lexicog] Turkey

[Kenneth C. Hill]

I think part of what's going on here is the preception of a language in
terms of its varieties. "Sort" and "sought" are slightly different somehow
even for speakers who pronounce them both identically because of an
awareness that for other speakers the two words are pronounced quite
differently, i.e., with a postvocalic rhotic r in "sort" and no
rhoticization in "sought", whether "sought" contains a postvocalic
shwa-glide or not.

As for Czech i/í and y/ý: According to my references, these letters
represent the same vowel phonemes (/i/ and /i:/) but signal palatalization
(before i, í) or lack of palatalization (before y, ý) of the preceding
consonant. Since consonant palatalization is quite salient in Czech, the
homophony of the vowels shouldn't be expected to be much of a source of
verbal play.

--Ken

--- Nick Miller <nick.miller at czech-translation.com> wrote:

> >>The problem with 'krutý' and 'krùtí' is simply that they are not
> homophones by any means.
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> Okay, you have puns, but I think you're overstating the difference in
> sound
> here. The 'ù' is just a long 'u' and the 'ý' and 'í' are practically
> identical, which is why you yourselves can have problems knowing which
> is
> which. Homophones in English can have slight differences when you look
> at
> them in detail. When I consider 'sort', 'sought' the first is a little
> longer.
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