Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 2, 2000, 2:21 |
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:48:37 +0100 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
writes:
> >> 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.
> -kristian- 8)
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I've never heard "Yiddish" with /i/....it's always ['jIdIS] (with a
flapped /d/, it sounds like). Hence the orthographic {dd} to mark the
preceding {i} as short /I/, and not long /aj/ - waitasec....if it was /i/
it'd be written {Yeedish}, wouldn't it? The only time i've heard
anything approaching [jidiS] is in Yiddish itself, which doesn't
distinguish between the sounds [i] and [I].
-Stephen (Steg)