Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . ottle with a very narrow neck of no more thanBix centimetres from palate to lips. Such a bottlewould answer to c. The natural pitch of i seems to be D. Fig. IL Examples:Open syllable, long, he short, behalf Closed syllable, long, beenshort, beenpronounced bin 7. There is, besides, the most troublesome of allvowels, the neutral vowel, sometimes called Willis defines it as the natural vowel ofthe reed, Mr. Ellis as the voice in its least modifiedform. Some people hear it everywhere, others im-agine they can distingu
Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . ottle with a very narrow neck of no more thanBix centimetres from palate to lips. Such a bottlewould answer to c. The natural pitch of i seems to be D. Fig. IL Examples:Open syllable, long, he short, behalf Closed syllable, long, beenshort, beenpronounced bin 7. There is, besides, the most troublesome of allvowels, the neutral vowel, sometimes called Willis defines it as the natural vowel ofthe reed, Mr. Ellis as the voice in its least modifiedform. Some people hear it everywhere, others im-agine they can distinguish various shades of it. Weknow it best in short closed syllables, such as but,dust, &c. It is supposed to be long in absurd. SirJohn Herschel hears but one and the same vowel inspurt, assert, bird, virtue, dove, oven, double, and Smart distinguish between the vowelsheard in bird and work, in whirPd and world. Thereis no doubt that in English all unaccented syllableshave a tendency towards ifc,^ e. g. ag-ainst, final, priu 1 Ellis, § VOWELS. 135 cipal, idea, captain, village. Town sinks to Padding-ton, ford to Oxford; and though some of these pro-nunciations may still be considered as vulgar, theyare nevertheless real. These are the principal vowels, and there are fewlanguages in which they do not occur. But wehave only to look to English, French, and Germanin order to perceive that there are many varieties ofvocal sound besides these. There is the French «.the German u, which lies between { andw;^ as inFrench, du, German, uber, Sunde. Professor Helm-holtz has fixed the natural pitch of ii as g. There is the French eii, the German o, which liesbetween e and o, as in French peu, German Konig,or short in Bocke? Professor Helmholtz has fixedthe natural pitch of o as c sharp. There is the peculiar short a in closed syllables inEnglish, such as hat, happy, man. It may be heardlengthened in the affected pronunciation of half. There is the peculiar short i, as h
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