Re: Miscellaneous Derivatives of "Hear Me!"

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.

> (2)
> I've found the following website and noted it for future referral:
>
> http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/courses/ling210-901/course/phonetics/
> ausenglish/auseng_vowels.html
Very interesting.


> (3)
> Tristan, how do the following words compare for you? I think I have:
>
> wrinkled    [RINkud]
["r\INk*_O5d] (r\ = alveolar fricative, * = @, _O = rounded, 5 = dark L)
(Being more observant of lost L's, I've noticed that perhaps people do
lose them a bit, although not nearly /nI:li/ as regularly as you
suggest.

> ring could  [RIN kUd] where [U] = [u_o]
["r\IN %kud]

> ring cooled [RIN ku:Ld]
["r\IN "ku:5d]



Tristan.

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