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Re: Vowelspace vs. Colorspace

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Sunday, October 9, 2005, 12:43
"Jonathyn Bet'nct" wrote:
>Interesting. I myself tend to assign colors to things, but it's a >completely different color palette from yours. > >I tend to think of [&]~[a] as dark green, [E] as medium green, and >[e] as a light green. [i] would be white, and [y] would be a >slightly yellowish white. [u] and [M] are orange. [7] and [o] are >yellow. [V] would be kinda brownish. [O] would be a greenish yellow. >I suppose that leaves [A] and [Q] to be blue. Interestingly, red, >purple, and magenta don't seem to fit any vowel sounds to me.
Interesting indeed! We seem to agree only on [i]. Could there be some sort of correlation to our L1s' vowel phonology? John Vertical