Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Hi!

D Tse <exponent@...> writes:
> I'm quite sure it's an unrounded version of /u/.
Yes, I think so, too.  In the Japanese films that I very frequently
watch, my ear said: it's a mixture of [Y] (almost-front almost-high
rounded) and [u] (both occur in German).  Ok, both are rounded, but it
was a misinterpretation of my ear.  When I tried to speak [u-], it
turned out that when moved forward a bit, it gave something between
[I=] (center high unrounded) and [u-] (back high unrounded).  And
that's exactly the sound that I heard in the films.

BTW, I think Turkish dotless i is [I=], not [u-].  Which book claimed
it was [u-]?  Who can give me pointers?

**Henrik

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