Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IPA Null Consonant > > > > Kent, the symbol used in linguistics is not the Danish capital vowel; > > it is the empty set symbol.
A rather categorical statement from Michael, with which I happen to disagree. (But I will elaborate on that in another message.) > One more linguistic usage sample (don't have any linguistic > books at my desk, > so I'll have to resort to googling)-- the Finnish "consonant > gradation": > http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/diabk.html > > And I can assure you that the Finnish consonant gradation does not change > 'k' to the Danish vowel :-) It simply means "disappears" (or in reverse, > "appears from nothing"). I understand that. That does not in itself at all disqualify the capital LETTER o with stroke from being used as a denotation of "empty sound" ELSEWHERE, e.g. the in the contexts from which this thread originated. /kent k
