Re: Romance Language Vowels (was: Frustrating Sound Descriptions)

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> Jim Grossmann wrote:
> >
> >     Does anyone know where I can find descriptions of sounds in various
> > Romance languages that are not frustrating?
>
> Here they are from _The Romance Languages_, Harris & Vincent (eds.),
> ISBN 0-19-520829-3.  I'm using ad-hoc notation rather than SAMPA
> because I don't have SAMPA in my fingertips, but it should be unambiguous:

[snip]

>
> Brithenig: [a], [e], [i], [o], [u] when stressed, [schwa], [E],
> [I], [O], [U], when not.  :-)

Cute, John!  And in what chapter do H & V cover this fine language? ;-)

>
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> John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org

Padraic.