3min chapter

Conlangery Podcast cover image

Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

Conlangery Podcast

CHAPTER

Contrastive Hierarchy for Vowels

If there's no distinction between like tense and laxen, it doesn't really matter which one you choose that much. You can also make those different soci-phonetic variables too. Some things are pretty discreet, but vowels are not. So some people pronounce it as an ah, most of the time, some people pronouncing it as an allMost of the time. Uh, anyway, that's all I'm going to say about that because I could end up going all along and my daughter is awake so I probably should, uh, play with her.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode