Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a

At 8:54:26 PM on Wednesday, September 28, 2005, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 5:20:25 PM on Wednesday, September 28, 2005, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:

>>> Why would greater height "maximize the disinction"?

>> Clearly the different between /i/ (resp. /u/) and /a/ is
>> greater than that between /e/ (resp. /o/) and /a/.

> I wouldn't better on maximisation.

I wouldn't either; I was just answering Patrick's question.

> They may keep them well apart, but given human laziness I
> wouldn't be surprised to find /i a u/ realised
> prototypically as [I 6 U]. (By '6' I mean roughly the RP
> vowel of _cut_ -

Roughly turned-a now, innit? (Which makes it a fine match
for [I] and [U].)

Brian