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  • “Hi Wordizens, I'm Rhoty. You can always readily recognize me by my low third formant. Tonight I'm invited to Schwa’s party and my longer brother ɝ is coming, too—it's going to be legen-er-dary!”

    July 14, 2009

  • Soviet Clippy?

    July 15, 2009

  • English also features l- and n-coloured vowels. of all the inappropriate orthographies...

    My students exhibit a lot of phonologically confusing r-colouring. In Korean, r-like consonants are assigned to the beginning of the syllable and l-like ones to the end. So what in the world is causing them to infuse 'doll' and 'wall' with such heaps of r-ness?

    July 15, 2009