* Lars Henrik Mathiesen said on 2001-11-14 17:02:28 +0100
> It's not uncommon for a natlang to have an unconditioned four way
> height contrast in the front vowels, but then it's usually /i e E
> a/. I don't think I've heard about a five way phonemic contrast,
> though there are languages where a greater number of vowels heights
> occur in different contexts (short vs. long, for instance).
Does dialects count? Was a guy in my phonetics-class last semester that
had /i e E { a A/ as phonemes :) (Plus the schwa and sundry rounded ones
of course.)
t.