Re: Vowelspace vs. Colorspace

On Sun 09 October 2005, 14:43 CEST, John Vertical wrote:

 > "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?

I'm jealous. Damn synaesthetics!

:-P,
Carsten

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