Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

Steg Belsky sikayal:

> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 04:19:02 -0500 Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
> writes:
> > I've never heard of "Ying", but I would render it /jIN/, and [jiN]
> > since
> > /I/ tends toward [i] before /N/. "Yiddish" is definitely /jIdIS/,
> > though.
> > AHD2 agrees, which is good, because when I was young I heard a fair
> > amount
> > of Yiddish words, since many of my friends' grandparents spoke the
> > language.
> >
> > Jeff
> -
>
> Okay, so far a few people have said that they have [iN] and not [IN]....
> As far as i can tell, i say [I], and "ring" has the same sound (central
> high unrounded vowel) as in "bit".  [iN] sounds unnatural to me for an
> English sound-combination.
On the contrary, I find [IN] to be illegal, and
"ying," sing," "ring," etc. all have [i].  But all of my vowels misbehave
before [N]--"hang" is [hE~N], *not* [h&~N], as some people have it.

>
>
> -Stephen (Steg), whose "Language, Culture, & Communication in the U.S."
> class is talking about accents now
>  "...eitein gam ferret..." ~ mishearing of the song _yafa sheli_ by eyal
> golan
>
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