Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
> Examples of my intuition of mappings to German vowels:
Let's see how that compares to what my Swedish brain hears ...
> [V] -> /a/ - strange(?), since German has /O/.
Me too. Probably because English [V] actually often is rather [6].
> [1] -> /y/ - hmm, not /u/, not /i/, but /y/.
Me too. There's something deciedly [y]-y about [1]!
> [3] -> /9/ - actually, even stressed [@] maps to /9/,
> possibly because /@/ only occurs unstressed
Stressed [3] and [@] go to /2/, unstressed to /E/. Don't ask.
> [M] -> /9/, maybe /@/
> - that's far away, and rounding is different
> [7] -> /9/ - furthermore, this vowel sounds 'very
> weird' (tm)
I've not heard these much enough to really have sure identifications, but I
believe [M] goes to /U/.
Others:
[6] -> /a/
[a~] -> /a:N/
(other nasals parallelly)
[&] -> /E:/ (regardless of actual length)
Andreas