RE: IPA Null Consonant

Behalf Of 
> jarkko.hietaniemi@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:32 PM
> To: everson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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



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