Re: [tied] English Phonemes (Was Re: [j] v. [i])

At 10:36:05 PM on Monday, June 2, 2003, wtsdv wrote:

> There is, I think, no reason to write both /E/ and /e/, in
> North American English, or at least in my dialect of it,
> since the more closed one is but an allophone that occurs
> before /j/.

You might run into a little more trouble with /i/, though:
there are varieties that have a three-way contrast among the
vowels of <rilly>, <really>, and <reel>, more or less [I],
[I:], and [ij], respectively. As I recall, Trager-Smith (or
at least Gleason's version) would analyze these as /i/,
/iH/, and /iy/.

Brian