"Monday"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I'd have used a barred-i if I knew the ascii for it, but for me, unstressed barred-i and unstressed schwa are basically                   > indistinguishable.

I believe in the distinction because it regularizes the phonological
description of certain languages. But, as for actually *hearing* a
distinction...

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-Wilson
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