Re: Vowelspace vs. Colorspace

"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