Chad,

Can you provide us (me) with your suggestion for a book, website, etcetera
that has decent descriptors of proper phonology?

As an epigrapher, I study the visual aspects of letterform through the time,
and an obvious problem occurs when making phonological comparisons between
letterforms as the oral and written languages evolve. The runes, especially,
are nightmare.

I'd expect that some sort of audio component would be neccessary to
completely convey the phonology. Do you have any idea what a beginner might
find best?

-Laz

----- Original Message -----
From: "icelandstone" <chad@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:54 AM
Subject: [norse_course] Re: hard a in norse


>
> >
> > >...So why a in 'father'
> > > rather than in 'pasta'?
> > >
> > > Hrimalfr
> >
> > A perfect example of what Chad/icelandstone posted earlier about
> > pronunication across languages.
> >
> > In my dialect, 'father' and 'pasta' use the exact same vowel sound.
> Go
> > figure.
> >
> > -Laz
>
>
> I am a native speaker of English, and in my dialect 'pasta'
> and 'father' are both pronounced with /a/, not with the /æ/ ~ /a/
> distinction maintained in some parts of Britain. The thing British
> speakers should remember here is that the people in Britain who
> pronounce 'pasta' /pæ:st@/ (distinguishing it from the 'a'
> in 'father') are not pronouncing it as in Italian, where it's
> invariably /pa:sta/.
>
> I realize not everyone on this list is a phonologist (or even a
> linguist), but it has to be realized that sounds in languages other
> than English cannot be described with the traditional English
> phonological terminology, like 'hard', 'soft', 'long a' (meaning /e/
> not /a/), etc.
>
> I realize also that the various books in English provide horrendous
> descriptions of the phonological systems, using this very same
> outdated terminology!
>
> Chad
>
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> ...aðrir spakmæli.
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> - Keth
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