Re[2]: [tied] Oddity of English

At 12:44:16 PM on Friday, October 14, 2005, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> I don't find this at all surprising: in my experience U.S.
>> /æ/ is often distinctly higher than [æ], though not so high
>> as [E], /E/ is similarly shifted, in some cases as far as
>> [I].

> Since /æ/ is tensed and lengthened, and develops a
> centring glide in many varieties of US English, it may
> produce a diphthong whose starting-point is actually as
> high as [I].

Oh, I hear plenty of that: I'm in Cleveland. But I was
actually thinking of monophthongal pronunciations.

Brian