Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

On Jul 25, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Christian Thalmann wrote:
> 1) I recorded a "vowel ladder" from the top to the
>    bottom: [i I e E & a A].  The file is online on
>    my homepage.  Could the experts among you
>    (professional linguists) please tell me where
>    my pronunciation doesn't match the true IPA
>    phone?
Your [I] sounds very [e]-like to me!

> 2) I recorded a latter of similar words from
>    different languages to demonstrate that I do
>    distinguish all the vowels mentioned in 1).
>    Explicitly, the words are: beat [i], bit [I],
>    Beet [e] (High German), bed [E], Bett [E] (High
>    German), bat [&], bätt [a] (Swiss German),
>    Bad [a ~ A] (High German), Baad [A] (Swiss
>    German).
> -- Christian Thalmann
Here it doesn't, though.

Everything sounds pretty close to mine, except that i never use [A] so
it always sounds weird ;) .


-Stephen (Steg)
  "elf boot got soul!  elf girls like to rock 'n' roll!"
      ~ tolkien geek rap 'lords of the rhymes'

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