> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> On Dec 11, 2007 10:24 PM, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:
>
> > [a?a]. You're wrong on that one. I have Anglophonic ears
> and I pronounce
> > /V/ as (central) [a], and so use more-or-less that
transcription. In
> > England I think most people would hear [a] as /&/.
>
>
> Dadgum Rightpondians, screwing up my otherwise perfectly good
> generaliZations. :)
>
> [A]~[a] all sound like "ah" to me, tending toward "aw", but
> never "uh",
> which is a noticeably higher sound (tongue-height-wise, not
> pitchwise).
Sounds more like [a] or [A] to me, or more appropriately [a_n] or
[A_n] since the first vowel is usually nasalized.
I'm a Left-coastian. Those Rightpondians definitely have little
appreciation for the improvements we've made to their language.
> If the English hear [a] as /&/, what do they hear as /a/??
Good question.