French /y/ and Polish/Russian /ɨ/

[iopq]

(04-18-2009 07:02 PM)rawonam Wrote:  What about the perception of Russian and Polish /ɨ/ by the speakers of other languages? Who will be able to hear it as a different entity than /i/? English speakers would probably perceive it as an /ɪ/ (can someone confirm?), what about others?

yeah, for sure especially since that's the most common allophone inside a word anyway
in isolation Russians tend to pronounce it something like [ɯɨ], though for some reason