http://www.kisa.ca/icelandic-e-o.mp3
Sonja
Certainly not E@, O@. But the o in words such as "kona" does sound a
little like [uo] to my ears, too.
I hear [eE] and [oO]. Perhaps closer together than that. Definitely a
diphthong, whenever it is exactly.
--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
> http://www.kisa.ca/icelandic-e-o.mp3
They are certainly centralizing diphthongs, but they start
higher than [E] and [O] -- nearly at [e] and [o], I'd say.
Brian
Note that you are misusing phonemic brackets. You're trying to say (in
this message) that /E/ is realized as [eE], etc.
Thanks for the correction, Peter!! <3
How would you transcribe these sounds, Peter? Are they indeed [eE] and
[UO] or [oO]? Or maybe something else describes them better?
I can't find any sources on this... :(
I wouldn't want to try to do a phonetic transcription of anything that
came through the tiny tinny speaker on this computer! If you can get
Ruud and Brian to agree on anything, it might be a satisfactory
interpretation.
Thanks Peter.
So I guess the long e is either [eE], [e@] or maybe even something
like [e3]... I'll wait til Ruud and Brian agree on something. Are they
both phoneticians?
Long o could be [oO], [o@], [UO], [U@], [uO] or something like that...
Sonja... working on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_orthography
> > http://www.kisa.ca/icelandic-e-o.mp3
>
> They are certainly centralizing diphthongs, but they start
> higher than [E] and [O] -- nearly at [e] and [o], I'd say.
meetoo-s :-)
and the latter sounds as a thriphthong or whatsit to me, closing and opening
again along an intermediate w-glide.