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Re: Three vowel grades

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 24, 2002, 22:57
David Stokes wrote:
> Rising will be the most stressed, so maybe the 'pure' vowels i u a o for > it. Falling is the next most stressed, because it is in the word roots. > I'm not wild about rounding, which is the other distinction I know about.
How about tuning the rising vowels into diphthongs? So, for example: /i/ -> /ia/ -> /ja/ /e/ -> /ej/ /a/ -> /aj/ /u/ -> /ua/ -> /wa/ -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42