Isabelle and list: Just catching up on some messages after several days out of town -
I use the Colorni for Italian diction and Colorni treats all unstressed e's and o's as open, not closed as you said.
My experience is that in practice the unstressed e/o fall somewhere between open and closed and this varies with relative pitch, duration and personal preference. Cindy Donnell -
>Moriarty, one of the standard Italian diction books used in the US, says that all ending unstressed e's and o's should be open.
However, Colorni, the other standard, says they should be closed.
Isabelle B.>
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