1990/12/01 by John Catford · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Mathematics · #Law, logistics, and international trade #Vowel #Convention #Linguistics #Mathematics #Political science #Philosophy #Law
paper · doi:10.1017/s0025100300004230
openalex publication_date 1990/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The 1989 Kiel Convention made an unprincipled decision to ignore the basis of the Cardinal Vowel system, which specifies four ‘heights’ and three ‘horizontal’ locations for vowels, by ignoring close-mid and open-mid central vowels and proposing only two symbols for non-close central vowels, viz. [ə, ө].