Re: Some help with Latin

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Edgard Bikelis:
>
> > Sanskrit distinguishes long vowels by nature from short,
> > even when they both are in heavy syllables, something like CV:CC versus
> > CVCC. Is this an audible difference?
>
> I would guess yes - why else would they distinguish it? In any case, such
> distinctions are found in other languages, eg. Sw. _väst_ [vEst] "west" vs
> _väst_ [vE:st] "hissed (pp)", which are certainly audibly distinct.
>
>  Andreas
As a side note, in my 'lect of Swedish, the distinction isn't one of length,
but of quality. /E/ is [E] and /E:/ is [&], if I trust these recordings
(I still try to learn IPA):

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/vowels.html

Maybe this chart is more correct, I don't know:
http://tinyurl.com/2xx2yp

Where to find better recordings (if this isn't correct)?

Cheers,
--
Veoler