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

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> And Rosta wrote:
> > /sejNr=/ is a much more interesting exception. It's exceptional also because
> > there's a long vowel, which is prohibited before /N/.
>
> It is?  I use /ej/ in "sang"
I just discovered today that, altho the vowel in "sang" has the same
quality as, e.g., "sane" (yet, minus the offglide), it has the *length*
of /&/, that is:

sag = [s&g]
sang = [seN]
sane = [se:jn]

So, it could be seen as /&/ raised before /N/, but psychologically it's
associated with /ej/.  And, of course, the same applies to Saenger -
[seNr=] vs. [se:jnr=].  Very interesting.

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