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

In a message dated 6/29/01 1:23:36 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

<< ->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". >>

    Now wait a minute...  There are people who would seriously pronounce it
/bæNk/?  I've never even thought of it that way; always as the long /ej/ (or
/ei/).  And if I stop myself short of the /Nk/ in "bank", I definitely am
saying /e/, not /æ/.

-David (SoCal Native)

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