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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: English glides (correction)
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 14:13:10 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 14:13:10 1985
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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This is probably not interesting to most people, but here are corrections
to a table of english `polyphthongs' that I snafu'd:

>         no glide  +y      +w      +r      +l       +[yw]r  +[yw]l

>    u+   put       -       boot    -       bull [w] sewer   pool
>    o+   bought    boy     boat    boar    ball [w] mower   bowl
>    o+                                          [y] lawyer  boil
>    a+   pot       buy	    -       bar     doll [y] pyre    bile
>    aa+  but       -	    -       burr    dull     -       -
>    ae+  bat       -       abOUt   *       pal  [w] power   bowel
>    e+   bet       bear    -       bear    bell [y] player  bail
>    i+   bit	    bee     -       beer    pill [y] seer    peel
>    0+   yabbA     abbEY   fellOW  blabbER purpLE   -       -
>    0+                                          [y] happIER  filIAL
>    0+   					 [w] follOWER ritUAL
>
>* occurs only when another syllable follows, as in bArrow

Sorry!

    "Hence, it is not possible to obey a rule privately; otherwise,
     thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as 
     obeying it" - Wittgenstein

-michael