RE: IPA Null Consonant

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 03:35:24 EDT

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    > > > - Ø [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE] and ø [LATIN
    > > SMALL LETTER O
    > > > WITH STROKE] are both ruled out as their semantics is
    > > totally wrong.
    >
    > Not at all (as seen by example Jarkko quoted!). In Danish
    > and Norwegian,
    > yes. But in Swedish and Finnish that vowel is written ö (and Ö).

    Uhhh, sorry, I must have not been clear enough. The symbol used in the Finnish
    morphology studies is NEITHER the ö nor the ø! It is used to mark the _absence_ of
    of a morphological unit:

            jalka -> jalan

    shows the change

            k -> EMPTY SET

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