"psyche" and "like"

Pat   Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:20 am GMT
"psyche" and "like" don't rhyme for me, being [sAIk] and [lVIk] respectively.
furrykef   Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:40 am GMT
"Psyche" is two syllables: "SAI-kee". It's "psych" that's just one.
Pat   Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:44 am GMT
Sorry. I misspelled it. I actually though it was spelled the same as the word "psyche" with two syllables. Anyway:

"psych" [sAIk]

"like" [lVIk]
Lazar   Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:16 am GMT
So you have vowel raising in "like", but not "psych". Could you tell us more about the distribution of your vowel raising? Do you have it in "psychic"? What dialect of English do you speak?

I have Canadian Raising in both words:

psych ["s6Ik]
like ["l6Ik]
Pat   Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:41 am GMT
<<So you have vowel raising in "like", but not "psych". Could you tell us more about the distribution of your vowel raising? Do you have it in "psychic"? What dialect of English do you speak?>>

I have vowel raising in "psychic" which is [sVIkIk]. "psychology" however is [sAIkA5@dZi]. I'm from New York.