Christine wrote:
>Okay, then you mean [j] is the symbol for "y". Putting [y] in brackets means >that it is the IPA symbol ...
No, Christine. I wrote: '[j] is the IPA symbol for [y], which is used by many English- speaking linguists and belongs to a system named EPD-14 (after the *14*th edition of Jones's *E*nglish *P*ronunciation *D*ictionary ). '
That is: [j] and [y] are phonetic symbols for the same sound, but in different systems ( IPA and EPD-14 and some others ). If Alan didn't mean the symbol, but the letter, so he shouldn't have written: ' I cannot find any reason why a [y] (French "u" or German "ü") ...' He put it in brackets, though I have to confess I think phonetic symbols are written between slashes only.
Bye, Caio
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