Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> > |o| is [u:] and [U]. |u| is [8\:] ([u\:] in my 'lect) and [8].
>
> What's an 8\ ? I don't see that on the CXS chart.
>
> Not that it matters much to me; I can't hear the differences among the
> various central vowels. They're all schwa.
It's a sign Benct Philip Jonsson and I are trying to make the 'stablished one
for a labialized rounded mid-high front vowel, which'd one otherwise would have
to write at [2_w] or [2_o] or something similarly ugly.
So it's not a central vowel at all. :p
Andreas