LL-L: "Morphophonology" LOWLANDS-L, 15.OCT.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Jorge Potter [jorgepot at caribe.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Morphophonology" LOWLANDS-L, 14.OCT.2000 (01) [E]

Ron, you wrote:

> It seems to indicate that these varieties permit syllables of the type
> #V....  In other words, a syllable may actually begin with a vowel
> (*actually*, not only as a matter of perception), as for instance in
> Romance languages, and unlike for example in most dialects of German, Low

> Saxon, English and Danish that only permit syllables of the type #CV...,
> where a glottal stop is used where people think of a syllable beginning
> with a vowel.
>
> I suppose that languages that permit syllables of the type #V... are more

> likely to develop liaison, at least word-internally after clitics, as in
> _for#ening_; i.e., the last consonant of the previous morpheme becomes
the
> first consonant of the following morpheme that starts with a  #V...-type
> syllable (e.g., /for#een+iN/ -> Standard Danish #for##?e':#nIN# vs SJ
> #fo#re:#nIN#).  Liaison, especially between words (as in French and many
> dialects of English), tends to be perceived as "soft", while use of
glottal
> stops tends to be perceived as "harsh" (as in German _Iss auch ein Ei_
> [?Is?aUx?aIn?aI]).

Please, where do you find a key to the phonetic symbols used on your
website?

Lost in PR,

Jorge Potter

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Morphophonology

¡Hóla, Jorge!

Most of us here loosely follow the SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet) recommendations:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm

See also

X-SAMPA (a proposed extension of SAMPA):
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm

SAMPROSA (SAM Prosodic Transcription):
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/samprosa.htm (prosodic)

I am not using phonetic script at my website, though.  I'm not sure what
you mean.

Friendly regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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