Re: Queensland // was [i:]=[ij]?

Adrian Morgan wrote:
>> > Obviously, this makes Australian /U/ much closer to /w/
>> > than Australian /u/.
>
>I think I'm with you. Of course, Australian is closer to
>British than American, and when I picture the British /u/ in
>my head it's just like the Australian AFAICT, i.e. not at
>all [w]. Phonetic symbols might be useful.
I already posted this in my reply to your previous post, but
its better suited here than there. I have tried to list the
phonetic symbols for the phonemes I have mentioned for
Queensland and (Western) American English below:

     Phoneme   Australian    American
       /u/       [u-y]       [Uw]~[u:]
       /U/        [u]           [U]
       /o/       [o-y]         [ow]
     (where: [u-] and [o-] are centralized vowels)

As you can see, the American realizations of these phonemes
resemble the phonemic symbols a lot better than the Australian
realizations.

-kristian- 8)