"Monday"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 29 00:21:51 UTC 2012
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...
--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list