BP Jonsson wrote:
>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].
And the IPA's got a policy of not including signs for phones that never
contrasts with the closest thing that does have one. Should've remembered
that.
> 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.
I'd be one of those Swedes.
If [mirrored e] is retracted [e], what's [mirrored epsilion]? Retracted [E]
would suggest itself, but I assume that's not so?
Andreas
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