All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")

[Tom Zurinskas]

My bad.  I've guess I must have reversed them.  See my previous comments on alveolar "front n" and velar "back n".  I went over the linkage of vowels with these two n's.

What amazes me is that folks call these two n's different phonemes and yet they think schwa is one phoneme when it is in reality many.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:26:41 +0800
> From: mcclay at TAOLODGE.COM
> Subject: Re: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn"> "worn")
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Russ McClay
> Subject: Re: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn">
> "worn")
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> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
>> Subject: Re: All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn">
>> "worn")
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>> Your error Gordon. I've said velar is back and alveolar is front.
>
> Actually, Tom, you wrote previously in this thread:
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> "The front or velar n and back or alveolar n are just allophones of one
> another."
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something, like my delete key.
>
> -r
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