Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:20:08PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> > umlauted a does not > E
>
> in Swiss German . . . but it does in High German, yes?
>
> > if you listen closely it sounds like Bostonian /a/ before /r/, the
> > closest analogue in US dialects (listen to old recordings of JFK or
> > Bobby K. or early Ted K. [present-day Ted seems to have toned down his
> > accent]).
>
> Yeah.  I think of the first |o| in native pronunciation of "Boston", or
> the |a| in native pronunciation of "Chicago", as more or less canonical
> [a]s (although bad impressions of those accents tend to exaggerate by
> putting [&] there).  Most of the other sounds normally transcribed as
> [a] (such as that of High German "Bad", or the usual |a| of the Romance
> languages) seem to be more central.
Didn't you argue _against_ me when I claimed that Spanish 'a' was more central
than cardinal [a]? Did I convince you, or do I misremember?

                                                       Andreas

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