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

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 04:19:02 -0500 Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
writes:
> 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
-

Okay, so far a few people have said that they have [iN] and not [IN]....
As far as i can tell, i say [I], and "ring" has the same sound (central
high unrounded vowel) as in "bit".  [iN] sounds unnatural to me for an
English sound-combination.


-Stephen (Steg), whose "Language, Culture, & Communication in the U.S."
class is talking about accents now
 "...eitein gam ferret..." ~ mishearing of the song _yafa sheli_ by eyal
golan