Hint:
It is also written as /ɛ/. Eng I students: Yule does not mention the checked-free distinction, which roughly corresponds to short-long in many languages.
Info:
Checked vowels cannot occur at the end of a stressed syllable, but free vowels can. Compare <see> /si:/ and <*seh> */se/ (which is not possible).
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