Re: umlaut reduction?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Steg wrote:
> >Well, i've always been partial to the English and Yiddish style of
> >derounding them, so for instance, /y/ becomes /i/, and /ö/ becomes /e/.
>
> This is also found in some south German dialects. As for YHL concerns of
> simplifying the phonology, some of these dialects have also got rid of the
> voiced-unvoiced distinction for stops. Saw a poem where "Leute" and "beide"
> rhymed ...
<blink>  I hadn't heard of that one either.  Interesting.

Perhaps I should also look at Yiddish.  Thanks, all!

YHL