Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:11:38 -0500

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET>

Subject: w-hw



Someone asked me privately:



"For those of us who are not professional linguists but enjoy reading ADS-L

would you

be kind enough to annotate after jargon. e.g. what does [hw] mean? or

/hw-/? Thanks"



My response:



[churlish mode ON]



Well, I think it's fair to question "jargon". But I didn't use any in

that post. What I did was provide a comment that I thought would be

perfectly intelligible in the context of what I was commenting on,

using the most basic forms of phonetic transcription available.

Check ANY introductory linguistics book for more information on

basic transcription practices.



[churlish mode off]



It's interesting that non-linguists find ADS-L interesting. I would like

to know what led you to it.



The brackets and slashes [] and // enclose pronouned forms. THe

sound of [w] is what it usually is in English -- a glide as in

words like wish, win, wit. The symbol [h] indicates aspiration or

breath out as in "old-fashioned" pronunciations of whether (as

opposed to weather), which (as opposed to witch), and wen (as

opposed to when).



Bethany Dumas

<dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utk.edu>