Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

And Rosta wrote:
> That said, for particular phoneme pairs in particular accents, phonetic
> length can be their primary distinguisher. E.g. for me,
>     [b&d] 'bade'  [b&:d] 'bad';
>     [bEd] 'bed',  [bE:d] 'bared';
>     [bId] 'bid',  [bI:d] 'beard';
>     [tok] 'took', [to:k] 'talk';
>     [h%t] 'hut',  [h%:t] 'hurt'
>     [pu] 'pull',  [pu:]  'pool'.
Interesting.  I say:

[be:jd]         [b&:d]
[bE:d]/[bI:d]   [bA:rd]  (some words like "bed" vary between [E] and [I]
in my speach - I think there may be a mid-way vowel, actually, most of
the time it sounds like neither /E/ nor /I/)
[bI:d]          [bir=d]
[tUk]           [tAlk]
[hVt]           [hr=t]
[pU:l~]         [pu:l~]

>     [pIs] 'piss', [fI:s] 'fizz'
Not [fI:z]?

> [fI:::s] 'fears'
not [z]?

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