Date:  Sat, 5 Mar 1994 13:50:39 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: /lIngwIstIks/



Natalie--

    I'm unfortunately not as much of a Southerner as you. I remember a

good friend, Neil Craig, a Central Texan by birth, who had a really very

high tense [i] in <king>, remarkably so to my ears, though he consistently

identified it with the /I/ of <kin>, not the /iy/ of <keen>. For me, the

vowels of <king>, <kin>, <ken> are all perceptually the same, /I/. I don't

doubt that a sound spectograph would show some detailed differences between

the first two, and I can hear them if I draw the vowel out, so it becomes

[I:y], the [y]-glide of course coming as the tongue moves through the position

on the way to the velar closure.

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