#gramle

ohhhh that's why it looked like a diphthong. what is /w/ if not a semi vowel anyways

the intervocalic consonant seemed like a voiced stop to me. turns out it's a glottal one, masquerading under the phoneme /t/. pesky, pesky... my first guess was spot on with the last two portions forming an affricate. the /l/ that i guessed in the second guess was just there because i thought maybe there was an l intervocalicly- i didn't actually think there was such a sonorous sound at the end lol. i wasn't sure if the lowering of f2 for the first vowel was due to a diphthong or your typical segment boundary shenanigans. speaking of segment boundary shenanigans, i had a sneaking suspicion that the second vowel would have been preceeded by a bilabial because of how both f1 and f2 rise as it goes on, which is why i guessed /b/. little did i know that was from a nasal, not a stop, being before the vowel. as you can tell i had some trouble with the identify of the second vowel, but that's just how it be. oh and at the second guess i thought maybe there was a veeery brief stop before the first vowel, which is why i tried /t/ for it.

lexical recall was not helping because idk what a minder is, even though at guess 4 as you can see i could tell it was phonologically plausible. i really got tripped up by the last vowel, which i thought was a high front one. what even is rhotacized schwa in terms of height? i wonder if it would be closer to [ɝ] anyways. it does sound like it the way the dude pronounces the last syllable. what even is the (perceptual!!) difference between [ɝ] and [ɚ] other than transcription conventions of not putting a schwa in a stressed syllable?

i knew the initial and final sounds were plosive but i can never tell their voicedness well. was unsure about the middle segment- thought maybe it was part of the next vowel. the vowels were unsurprising cause f1 was high and close to f2 for the low back vowel and f1 and f2 were far apart for the high front one

gramle's own transcription guide