Re: Wow! It's a Yogh!


Neeraj Mathur wrote:
> <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > Neeraj Mathur wrote:
> >> Prai was talking about UK English, where it is both rounded and backed.
> >> 'Wasp' has the same vowel as 'lost', and in RP, that vowel is slightly
> >> higher and rounder than [O].
> >
> > It can be rounder than an EnUS [O] but is it possible to be rounder
> > than a cardinal [O]?
>
> You get rounder as you go higher, don't you? Or maybe just the opening gets
> smaller. Cardinal vowel [o] has a smaller opening than cardinal [O], which
> is what I was thinkning when I typed 'rounder'.

Ok; I was wondering if there was more to it.

> > The list "were won win wee wool woo wet wane wan wine woe war wow"
> > seems to give an inventory of vowels and diphthongs after w. No [A:].
> > Whether [@] occurs after [w] is questionable.
>
> What about 'whack', in those dialects that wouldn't make it voiceless?

[w&k], not [w@k] or [wAk], as far as I've heard.

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