Re: OT: Y/N variants (< OT: English and front rounded vowels)

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).

If the English hear [a] as /&/, what do they hear as /a/??

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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