Re: A bunch of phonological questions

Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:

> Hi all, here're some unrelated phonological & phonetical questions I've
> thought up lately. I'll be thankful for any answers...
>
> 1. Low vowels
> Do any natlangs contrast the three of /& a A/? Yes, a couple of conlangs do
> that, but I've never heard of any natlang examples?
I do not know of any language that could be sensibly analyzed with those as
three separate phonemes, but many varieties of Swedish, incl the Standard, has
all of [& a A] phonetically. The long and short varieties of /a/ are [A:] and
[a], and /E/ gets lowered to [&] before retroflexes.

                                                              Andreas

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