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

> In a message dated 4/7/01 9:10:00 PM, robert@APEXWOOD.COM writes:
>
> << Also, I don't think I have [@] (or is that [2]?), I have [V]
everywhere.
> At least, that's if IPA Help is anything to go by. >>
>
> Actually, what's the deal with schwa and carrot?  I asked two of my
> linguistics teachers, and all they can say is that carrot appears in
stressed
> syllables; schwa does not.  That can't be the only difference, can it?
> Sometimes I pretend I can hear the difference, but it's hard to isolate...
schwa [@] is mid-central and unrounded. Carrot [V] is back open unrounded.

Something like the following is my mind map:

.  i/I         u/U
.  e           o
.      @/3
.  E       V   O
.  &   a   Q   A

I'm not sure on the relative positions of e/E and o/O. Columns are front
unrounded, mid unrounded, back unrounded, back rounded. I've only listed
those vowels that occur in my dialect.

Strangely, for me [V] is consistently pronounced at a higher pitch than [@],
as well as being pronounced further back. The main oddity for me is that
[3:] may as well be [@:] for me.





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