Re: IPA for the Vowel in "good"

In a message dated 7/27/01 8:43:46 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

<< If you have honest-to-God barred i at all, it will be in the plural/verbal

ending -es after sibilants:   roses [rozi-z], kisses [kisi-z], judges

[dZVdZi-z] etc.   You might be able to distinguish "roses" vs. "Rosa's"

[roz@z], or kisses vs. r-less "kissers" [kis@z].  There's also adverbial

"just", which is [dZi-st] for many.  But it's a fairly fine distinction, and

perhaps only linguists make it......:-) >>

    Often times, I have [I] in things like "roses" and "poses" and "kisses"
and such.  However, I think there's free variation between [I] and [i-].

<<Then there's the sound we make when we see/smell something disgusting,

wrinkling the nose and going [i-:::::]; I've never seen that in written

form, though maybe "oooh" or "eeew" are attempts at it.>>

    I would write, "ihhh" or "iyhhh".

-David

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