On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:49:43 Gina wrote: > > >I will use Italian vowels for these exercises. I don't have any IPA >fonts on my system. >/i/ would sound like the stressed vowel in the italian word io and >the vowel in the English words feet, street, greet >/e/ sounds like segno or the first vowel in the English words fate, >hate, gate, hey >/E/ sounds like petto or wet, get, bet, set >/a/ sounds like Amarilli or father >/o/ sounds like dove or boat, goat, moat >/O/ sounds like orribile or cough, upon, awesome >/u/ sounds like muto or truth, fruit, through > In Italian, "orribile" has /o/, like "dove". /O/ is, for example, in "cosa", "roba"; in "sonoro" you can find both (s/o/n/O/r/o/)
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