Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> [...] otherwise you could perhaps have lowered the
> /E/ to [{] to leave room for the extra phoneme (as [E]).
>
> [...] you
> could even use advanced/retracted tongue root, though I admit that I
> don't know how it sounds myself.
As has been pointed out here, mere lowering doesn't get you past [E];
reaching [{] is a matter of ATR.
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