Re: Russian vowel <bI>

Peter T. Daniels wrote: 
Tommi Nieminen wrote:

Jim Heckman kirjoitti:


Haven't seen anyone mention Thai yet. 

Nor English :-)  Can't remember who or where, but I've seen someone
somewhere say that for some dialects in some contexts the allophone of
/I/ might be [1] in English too.


Barred-I (not identical with Russ. <bI>, which is severely diphthongal)

Really? i say мышь (mysh) and i hear nonthing diphtongal. i seem to hear slight [i] after [1] in быть (byt') if i say it severely slow, because palatalised consonant follows it. but there are many words where <bI> is followed by a hard consonant and I don't hear <bI> diphtongagonazing... is it something with my hearing?

is common both in <book> (and <Bush>) and in <children>. English is
going the way of Ethiopic!

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