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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: English [&]
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:43:00 GMT
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In article <548ido$ijh@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Coby (Jacob) Lubliner <coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <545h46$t8q@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
>Simon Buck <Simon.Buck@Computing-Service.Cambridge.AC.UK> wrote:
>>Well, the IPA symbol is clearly // (or /&/), because this seems to have
>>been invented for English, occurring in no other language that i can
>>think of at least.

Aw, c'mon, you can think of French!

>Arabic?  (At least Palestinian/Syrian/Iraqi, according to the way I
>hear the names of Arafat, Assad and Saddam pronounced by their
>compatriots.)

Maybe he's speaking on a phonological level, because quite a few
languages have [&] as a phonetic variant of /E/ or /a/.  In addition
to Levantine Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, and Persian (and, doubtless,
other related languages) come to mind--and that's just in the 
Middle East.


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