Re: some more Irish vowels


<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote...
John Atkinson wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

You're saying that, unlike most SBrit realizations, your Mary has a pure
vowel with no offglide (so that it makes sense to talk of indefinitely
extending it)? Great, now I'm beginning to learn something.

You might learn more if you listen to the first "Sara" in Bob Dylan's
"Sara, oh Sara".
http://bobdylan.com/songs/sara.html

In terms of openness, the first (and third) "Sara" sound to me like my /E/, as in men and (the beginning of) mary. The second and fourth sound to me like my /&/, as in man.

John.

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