Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 3, 2000, 5:02 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Permissible pontification: (?) there is no tense/lax contrast in English
> before /N/ or /r/ (at least in monosyllables). The vowel is neither [i] nor
> [I], but somewhere in-between-- usually closer to [I] I think (it is for
> me).
Not for me. It's exactly the same as /i/, "seen" and "sing" identical
except for the final vowel, /sin/-/siN/.
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