velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 9 16:02:27 UTC 2009


I was following American convention below.  For wedge read IPA turned a.

Herb

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was also not clear on what you meant. Since schwa is mid central,
> and wedge is low back, the contrast is not just of height, and which
> character stands for what vowel can't be inferred from the context.
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> Mark Mandel
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> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Matt,
>>
>> Right on V, but @ is schwa, following Kirshenbaum's ASCII IPA
>> (http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html).
>>
>> I should have added to the examples
>>
>> /h at Id/ Â (v.) "hide"
>> /hVId/ Â (n.) "hide"
>>
>> Herb
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>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Gordon, Matthew J.
>> <GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
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>> > Herb:=20
>> > Could you clarify your notation? i think you intend @ for script a, the =
>> > low back unrounded vowel, V for wedge. Is that right?
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