[Tlhingan-hol] qepHom 2015 with Marc Okrand

Lieven levinius at gmx.de
Sat Mar 28 16:03:22 PDT 2015


Am 28.03.2015 um 23:20 schrieb Elizabeth Lawrence:
> It's dangerous to use English words as examples for vowel sounds,
> because of all the regional variation.  However, (at least in
> northeastern American English) the word cop does rhyme with shop, so the
> example is confusing.

I should proofread my messages before sending. :-(

Thanks for your comment; what I intended to say was of course that it's 
*NOT* the o sound of cop (which is usually {qap}). Yes, "cop" rhymes 
with "shop".

Your examples are good. {Dop} rhymes with "dope".

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Lieven L. Litaer
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