On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:59:33
Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
>
>> In Italian, "orribile" has /o/, like "dove".
>> /O/ is, for example, in "cosa", "roba"; in "sonoro"
>> you can find both (s/o/n/O/r/o/)
>
>Aha! You are a Colorni convert.
What does it mean "Colorni convert"?
>Moriarty keeps all ending unstressed o's and e's open.
>Why? I don't know.
ending unstressed? always close
stat/o/
cart/E/ll/o/
r/e/gi/o/n/e/
imp/o/ssibil/e/
/o/p/e/razi/o/n/e/
ind/e/c/E/nt/e/
c/e/rtam/e/nt/e/
...
>I know that San Francisco Opera teaches the open
>unstressed vowels. What is taught where all you
>people are, at schools and in houses?
I am Italian and live in Italy. We speak, but we don't study many rules.
I'm trying to think to many words, but I always find that unstressed means
necessarily close.
If anyone have some example of the contrary, please tell.
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