Re: vowel descriptions
| From: | Garrett <alkaline@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 7:31 |
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At 10:57 PM 12/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoth Garrett:
>> I need a little help - How do i describe the following vowels
>> (front/central/back, high/mid/low), and what are their ASCII IPA
>> representations?
>>
>> r (in her, sure)
> Usually a mid-central vowel, with rhoticity. ASCII-IPA is
> unclear; R would be okay if you aren't using a uvular trill.
>> w (in put, book
> back, high-mid, round, lax. U.
>> *or* cut, what)
> mid, central, unround. ^ or V. A completely different vowel,
> in most people's dialects. You aren't perhaps from northern
> England, are you? (If you are, you want [U].)
California. the 'u' in 'put' and 'book' is between "cut" and "boot". The
'w' vowel will be either as in 'put' or as in 'cut'.
>> u (in luke, toot)
> back, high, round, tense. u.
>> o (in go, rote)
> back, mid, round, tense. o.
>> a (in dot, faught; open 'a')
> Gaaah. You probably mean
> back, low, round. A.
> but you might mean
> back, low-mid, round, lax. O.
> or possibly
> front, low, unround. a.
> or something else entirely. (Going back to the northern English
> hypothesis, you probably want [A].)
I want the Spanish "a". You know, not as open as in "cat", and not like the
closed sound some speakers pronounce in "caught".
>> e (in set, fetch)
> Front, mid, unround, lax. E.
>> i (in keep, me)
> Front, high, unround, tense. i.
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