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Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu the ABC Book - 05/02/05 01:02 PM
http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/ABC.html

let the games begin...


this is handy, too:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/sayhow.html

Posted By: tsuwm Re: the ABC Book - 05/02/05 04:30 PM
ASP (ASP) Astronaut Support Person

aha! so they keep those guys aloft via a pit of frothing vipers?! (hi anna)
-ron o.

Posted By: maverick Re: the ABC Book - 05/02/05 07:07 PM
> É, é = *e'vil, r*ee'l

Huh. That's poor phonological analysis I reckon. Doesn't matter where you are from, there is a difference in say reed and reel - the tongue has to make a palatal closure quite far back against the roof of the mouth to go from the eee sound to the el sound. So there is almost bound to be a production which, if slowed down, might sound a bit more like reee~uhl, making it sound different to the plain eee in evil.

But these are the problems inherent in trying to define pronunciation in its own terms!

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