"clapboard" and transcription questions (was: Froe)

[A. Maberry]

I pronouce it as if it were spelled "clabberd". I don't think I've ever
heard it any other way around the Northwest.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:

> At 9:07 PM -0400 9/21/00, Anne Lambert wrote:
> >Incidentally , how do you people pronounce "clapboard"? I tend to
> >pronounce in /clab:@rd/.
> >
> ['klaeb at rd] (where [ae] is the digraph and [@] the schwa--is your /a/
> vowel different from the low front rounded of "cat" and "clap"?  are
> you intending the [:] to represent a long or double [b]?)
>
> Incidentally, did we ever decide whether we're using [@] for schwa,
> or if not, what we're using?
> In the absence of an ascii representation for either the digraph (my
> [ae] above) or the written a, can we agree to use the typed [a] for
> the latter (as in "on", "Don", "Hahn" for the majority of those
> responding to the "back vowels" thread)?  And what DO we use for the
> vowel of "cat"?  I do kind of like the [)] for open-o (backwards-c);
> I'd never come across that before the current thread.
>
> larry
>