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Accent variation limited to vowels?
Do you consider the rhotic-non-rhotic dialect difference a vowel difference?
Is the wen/ hwen dialect difference a a vowel difference?
I am not sure if there are any dialects of English that retain the pronounced k in knife.
--Steve
Hi Steve
The 3d Alternative might actually be practical.
It is certainly understandable. Most of the accent variation in
English only affects the Vowel sounds.
You just need to add about 9 Variable Letters (Generic Sound
Markers) to the Alphabet and plug them in when the sound being
pronounced is indeterminate.
1 for any Voiced Consonant, 1 for Unvoiced consonant, one for a
Nasal or Liquid Consonant. 6 more for different types of vowels.
(i.e. Short, Long, Dipthong) and whether they are part of a closed
or open syllable.
I came up with a scheme to do this for Shavian. It was quite nice.
{please provide the reference or URL}
Regards, Paul V.
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--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A third alternative is to identify the sound-signs that represent
the greatest difference between two dialects and allow them to
fluctuate. They can be pronounced either way and still be understood. Instead of
rewriting path as paath or p?h, we just allow that interpretation.
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