User talk:RoachPeter/sandbox

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that vowel reduction is a phonemic contrast in English, and that this applies to most vowels. That is, that we either have a set of full and a set of reduced vowels, or that vowel reduction is a suprasegmental feature analogous to stress. I don't see a distinction between schwa and the others in this regard. So, we might have a correspondence s.t. like this:

(Since I don't make all these distinctions, I'm half guessing here. There's also the issue of barred-ɪ being used both for schwi and for schwa~ɪ alternation.)
 * full || reduced
 * iː eɪ ||i
 * uː ||u
 * oʊ ʊ ||ɵ
 * ɪ ɛ æ ||ᵻ
 * ʌ ɒ ɑː ||ə
 * ɔː aʊ aɪ ɔɪ || NA
 * }
 * ɪ ɛ æ ||ᵻ
 * ʌ ɒ ɑː ||ə
 * ɔː aʊ aɪ ɔɪ || NA
 * }
 * ɔː aʊ aɪ ɔɪ || NA
 * }

I wonder therefore why we'd want to say that schwa is phonemic but other reduced vowels are not. — kwami (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Sound file markup
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For example you can use the template if you wish to provide “clickable” phonetic transcription. The source code

will yield this:

Several other templates such as and  work in a similar way.

There are also more general ways to include sound files, usually without transcription; cf. this help page. Writing

displays as



while

shows up as

—LiliCharlie (talk) 13:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC) —LiliCharlie (talk) 14:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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