Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 2, 2000, 9:19 |
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:48:37 +0100, Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
wrote:
>Adrian Morgan wrote:
[interesting discussion of Australian vowels snipped]
>>> In cases where a semivowel is next to a vowel with an identical place
>>> of articulation (like "yiddish", "ying", "woo"), the semivowels can
>>> become a bit more closed.
>>
>>The first two examples are [jI] not [ji], no?
>
>Eeeh gads! "Ying" is actually a terrible example 'cuz it involves /I/ not
>/i/. "Yiddish" is /ji/ though.
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
>-kristian- 8)