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Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Monday, July 2, 2001, 12:51
Lars:
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:00:37 -0400 > > From: Roger Mills <romilly@...> > > > > Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote: > > ->So the /&/ goes to /ej/? Some american i talk about the phonetics of our > > >englishes with claims he uses [&j] (but only allophonic) before /N/, > > > > Deja vu...... we went through this a while back IIR. The [j] glide here > > seems to result from the movement of the tongue from [æ] position to [N] > > position. Similary, many of us have a centralized off-glide [@] in the > > sequence /...æn#/ as in "ban". > > I have a related question here. According to some authorities (hi And > and Ray), <pays> is /pEiz/ but <says> is /sEz/ in normal British > pronunciation. > > However, with some speakers I'm sure I hear a different continuant > sound after the /E/ in the latter form. To my Danish ears, it sounds > like my own postalveolar /D/. Can anyone else hear it, or am I crazy? > > (I have it in my own pronunciation as well, and I must have learnt it > from someone --- but that could be my fifth grade English teacher who > was certainly not a native speaker).
It seems to me that what you are describing is an allegro realization. That is, your observation is correct, but you are not hearing a phonological contrast. --And.