[Spellyans] Schwa

[Jon Mills]

Lhuyd writes <dotted-y> to represent "I in Bird, or o in money". In the part of Wales from which Lhuyd came, these are pronounced [b at d] and [m at ni]. Perhaps AB could be searched for minimal contrast sets containing <dotted-y>.
Jon


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> From: "Jon Mills" <j.mills at email.com>
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Phonemic inventory
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:48:03 +0000
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> Such pairs would not determine whether or not schwa is a phoneme. 
> Minimal contrast has to be in the same environment. If in one of 
> the pair the syllable is stressed and in the other the syllable is 
> unstressed then the envirnoment is different.
> Jon
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> > To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Phonemic inventory
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:43:34 +0100
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> > Are there minimal pairs where stress is the
> > distinguishing factor? An example using the acute
> > to mark stress ould be (I'm making these up)
> > <áles> v. <alés>
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