>>caeruleancentaur wrote:
>>For me, "dance" has the same vowel sound as is found in ant, aunt,
>>answer, pants, rancid, etc. It seems to be a more closed sound.
>>Does anyone know what I am talking about?
>Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>As far as I can tell, [&] seems to break in American dialects before
>nasals. So, 'dance' is /d&ns/ [d&@ns]. That's just from my
>rightpondian perspective though.
That is some help, thanks. The X-SAMPA chart that I have gives the
Swedish word "drømme" as the example for /&/. That was no help to me
at all.
Charlie