Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:35 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> This is something that's been bugging me for a while: My phonetics textbook
> says that in English /i:/ and /u:/ are [iy] and [uw], respectively. It claims
> that these are diphthongs, and the second element is a glide.
Also, to add to my previous reply, [w] is much more rounded than [u] in
my speech. The glide in [uw] is much easier to notice than that in [ij]
(which I suspect is not there 100% of the time).
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