Re: Blah blah blah natlangs

Adrian wrote:
>Justin Mansfield wrote, quoting myself:
>
> > > Reference points on the [e]->[E]->[&]->[a] continuum can be hard to
> > > pin down, and I don't think my dialect has [E] so I have difficulty
> > > distinguishing it.
> >
> >     My idiolect definitely has [j{] (or [j&] depending on your favored
> > transcription system), but the actual phonetic realization might be
> > something else, just because speakers of other dialects usually insist
> > that my /{/ is not [{]. If this is so, I don't know what exactly it is.
> > It's definitely not a diphthong, however, even in "yeah."
>
>As far as I can tell, my [e], [&], [a] are equispaced. I understand [E] to
>be halfway between [e] and [&], and the British RP of "Dad" (etc) has a
>vowel halfway between [&] and [a]. Thus a three- or five- way breakdown of
>the [e]->[a] continuum makes sense to me, but a four-way one I don't quite
>grasp.
Hm ..., on my "vowel quadragon" [i], [e], [E] and [a] are equispaced, with
[{] half-way between [E] and [a]. As someone said; "Who will ever agree on
vowels?" ...

                                                         Andreas
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