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Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 27, 2004, 13:51
Christian Thalmann wrote:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@J...> wrote: > > >>Your [I] sounds very [e]-like to me! > > > Yes, it doesn't sound right here. I have trouble > producing it isolated. Even if the height > difference is very small, [I] should be clearly > more central than [e]. See the second recording > for a better [I] vs [e].
More central? So your /I/ is /I\/? Not so strange. My (WestSwedish) /9/ is [3\]. -- /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)