Re: Miscellaneous Derivatives of "Hear Me!"

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 20:23, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:37, Adrian Morgan wrote:
> > (1)
> > First, a phonetic alphabet question:
> >
> > I have no idea how to transcribe the vowel in "all", and can't put a
> > name to how it differs from [u] (I can hear the difference easily, I
> > just can't tell how my mouth moves between them). Hints appreciated.
>
> As Christophe and the website you've quoted have suggested, /o:/ is
> probably the best vowel, even though /O:/ is the standard.. I'm going to
> have a listen to recordings of the sounds soon, probably tomorrow when
> no-one else will be at home to listen to me playing sounds of
> vowels---not that they don't already know I'm mad, of course.
I now realise you meant the vowel in 'all' as opposed to that of
'ought'. I agree with you that 'all' is more raised than 'ought' is,
much closer to [u]. However, I have no idea what it is, either. If I
absolutely had to make a quick judgement (is <judgement> not a valid
spelling in the US?) on it, I'd probably use [U:], seeing as I wouldn't
use [U] anywhere else (preferring [u] for that vowel).

Tristan.

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