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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2008.04.15 (02) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
[...]
>    2. Many speakers of Australia, New Zealand and
> certain parts of
>    England, and also of "good" England English,
> pronounce "brought" as "bought"
>    (e.g. "My dad bought this back from Italy last
> year.") What's this one
>    about?
[...]

Reinhard,

Excuse me for my impertinent remark:
In this 'bought' I guess that [in most cases] the
transition of b to o is a little longer than in the
normal words with initial bo... .

I'm sure that your sensible ears will pay attention to
this.
But I myself I'm using just my 'theoretical' ears.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Phonology

Thanks, Theo.

Actually, contrasting this "b(r)ought" with the pronunciation of words like
"broad" or "brawn" you will find that the former has a /r/ missing, the
latter don't.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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From: M.-L. Lessing <marless at gmx.de>
Subject: Quantal vowels

Dear Lowlands-Linguists, can anyone tell me in simple words what "quantal
vowels" are? There is this interesting article
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13672. The neanderthal's
voice, to be sure, is no belcanto, but I can't quite see the difference to
today's humans' voices. In fact I know people who sound like the
neanderthaler :-) Is it possible for a today's human to speak without
"quantal vowels"?

Thanks in advance!

Marlou

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