Re: Graphemes defined

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 2263
Date: 2004-05-28

Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 07:51 -0400 2004-05-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >You acknowledge that these lexical items are from other languages! Thus
> >the alien sounds in them are not part of English.
>
> Different from the original point, though. The
> sound "zh" in "measure" is an import into
> English. Some dialects of English have [x]. In my
> own dialect I use [ç] in words like "human"
> ['çjum@...].

There's no phoneme /ç/. /hy/ --> [ç].
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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