Re: E and e (was: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 10:49 |
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At 20:18 2002-04-29 +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Does seem like the IPA could do with a sign for this 'lax [E]' then. I guess
>there's at least a diacritic for retracted?
I doubt it ever contrasts with cardinal [E]. The sound most Swedes use for
'e' in 'gosse' is essentially this sound. I have on occasion used
mirror-image [e] -- actually a retracted [e] -- for this sound.
/BP 8^)>
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