Date:  Mon, 8 Jan 1996 21:21:21 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: Re: American Diphthongs



Terry,

    Re Raven's transcription of the offglide in <out> as an [o], that

certainly captures my own pronunciation better than a [w], since the glide

is clearly not all the way to a high back target, and the lip rounding is

rather weaker than would be implied by a [w]. I would certainly phonemicize

it as /aew/, but phonetically it would be inaccurate to use the traditional

[U] foisted upon us by the Speech-Communications folks, who keep misusing the

IPA. I hadn't really thought about the exact phonetic nature of this glide,

so thanks for bringing up the question.

    --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)