Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 9:45 |
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:20:58 -0500, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
>Incidentally, further to another post, re the limited set of permissible
>vowels before /N/-- sing, sang, sung, song-- how about the V of "strength"?
>(For those of us who pronounce the N, not [strEnT] as many do.) Sounds like
>/e/ to me; certainly not high /i ~ I/ nor low /æ ~E/
Hmmm. I'd say [stSrINkT], slightly different vowel from that of string
[stSriN]. I should note that in my case, /E/ is also raised before other
nasals /m and n/, similar to [I], but slightly less unrounded. This
difference only occurs in careful speech, though.
Jeff