Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:33:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801091833.NAA16893@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: lojban 'a' X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 384ad55c69104469ee2245f527bfc089 Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 683 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jan 12 15:45:20 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - Lojbab: > In general the vowels are defined as being ideally at positional > extremes: hi front, hi back, mid front, mid back, and open, all preferably > tense to contrast with the lax medial y. Roundedness is not significant. > The 5 Romance vowels are probably good examples for a/e/i/o/u. Don't forget the buffer vowel, for which I use [y]. Ideally I'd like to swap my realizations of /y/ and the buffer, but this would contravene the prescription. Technically, if roundedness is really not significant then [y] is a realization of /i/. But this way madness lies. If I start rounding my front vowels and unrounding my back vowels then noone will know what I'm saying. mi`e &