Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)

Tom Wier wrote:
>
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > > I pronounce "eighth" /ejT/, without any /t/ whatsoever....maybe it's a
> > > dialectal difference...
> >
> > I pronounce it as Kristian transcribed it, although your pronunciation
> > also seems fairly common around here. Also, some people around here
> > pronounce "height" as [h^it_dT] (probably by analogy with "width"
> > [wId_dT] or [wIt_dT]) or even as [h^iT].
>
> What does the [^] represent? (Normally, such symbols are used to
> indicate the the vowel represents something slightly different from the
> cardinal vowel; the symbol you gave would make it slightly higher
> than normal)
My apologies. Of course by [^] I meant [V] :) ( Looks more like ^ to
me :) )
So [hVit_dT], [hViT].