Re: The Next Step (was Vulcan in Vulcan)
Rob Zook 
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:34:12 -0500

At 06:50 PM 10/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 06:17 PM 10/22/97 -0500, Rob wrote:
>
>>At 04:03 PM 10/22/97 -0500, Saul wrote:
>>
>>>the sounds in question. That is, the <ey> in "hey" is not the 
>>>same as the /ee/. It's more like a diphthong /eeii/. Or the sequence /eey/.
>>
>>Would /ee/ sound anything like the "e" in English "met"?
>
>It's just above it. /e/ is the <e> in "met." /ee/ is higher in the 
>mouth and slightly further forward. And native English speakers will 
>have a great deal of trouble hearing the difference. Well, most American 
>dialects... Let's see, it's very much like the Australian or South-
>African vowel in "there." Oii wuudn gau auva thee, if oii wa yuu.

Oh. So it's more like the initial vowel sound in the dipthongs in
the English words "air" and "pear"?

Rob Z.
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