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

jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> 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.
I have /hejN/, so that "sane" and "sang" have the same vowel.

Before /N/, I can only have /i/ (sing), /ej/ (sang), /A/ (song), /V/
(sung), I think that's it.  Interesting that all can be demonstrated in
one group of words!  :-)

There's also /uN/, but only in names like "Jung" (in fact, off-head
that's the only example I can think of).

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