Re: some more Irish vowels


Ruud Harmsen wrote:
15 Dec 2006 06:37:05 -0800: "Peter T. Daniels"
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merry is highest
marry is lowest

Quite agree. A little higher than [E], and a little lower, that is,
[æ] (in the IPA sense, not "usage" sense).

No, Ruud. merry is [E]

marry is [&] ([ae])

Mary is intermediate --

So it must be roughly [E].

No, Ruud. [E] is uncontroversially the vowel of merry.

but has obligatory spreading

Spreading of what? Lips? So are the other two rounded?

No, Ruud. If you'd ever had phonetics training, you'd know that
"spread" and "rounded" are two lip positions you can move to from
"neutral."

Or spreading of position among different speakers?

An attempt at a joke, I presume?

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