Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

At 19:24 2001-06-25 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
>
>|     I can do this, no problem.  That vowel, though...  I have so much
>trouble
>| pronouncing "weird" vowels (vowels not native to my English or Spanish).  I
>| can do [y] and [Y] and sometimes [oe], but these barred vowels (which do NOT
>| appear in my English) I can't for the life of me muster.
>
>Oh you meant the vowel!  Incidentally, the high central rounded vowels can be
>found in my local Texas English in words like "fool", "school", "tool",
>"food",
>"cool".  But I think that's the tense vowel (the one found in Swedish, that is
>/u-/), and you're talking about the lax one.  In that case, it's probably more
>like a raised rounded schwa.  It's a tough one because it sounds like it could
>be several other more common vowels.

Which is a common feature of non-high central vowels -- sounding
intermediate between a lot of other sounds, that is.

I wonder can any of you produce the [oe-] which occurs in my accent of
Swedish?  It's quite a common sound here since it is our realization of
schwa.  It also occurs stressed, e.g. in [moe-s:A] "moss".




/BP 8^)>
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