Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:Ron Johnson wrote:On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 10:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:Andrei Popescu wrote:On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:32:48 +0300 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:[snip]phonemes. In my dialect of spoken English, the words "do" and "dew" are distinguished by the use of the hard /d/ in the first, and the palatal /dj/ in the second. Other dialects do not so distinguish, pronouncing both /du/. I say /du/ and /dju/, respectively.If I'm reading correctly, you pronounce "dew" (condensed atmospheric moisture) and "Jew" the same way.
No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar to the consonantal
"y" in English, as in "yet". As an example of another two words
which are distinguished in my dialect via palatalization, consider
the words "new" and "knew". The first I pronounce as /nu/ the
second as /njew/ (spelled with sort-of English letters as "nyoo").
Similar differences are in "boo" /bu/ and "imbue" /Im:bju/, where
in the second word the "b" is palatal. The colon (":") marks the
accented/emphasized syllable.
Mike
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