Pronunciation: Aleix, Andreu

[LoveVanPersie]

How are Aleix and Andreu pronounced? I don't know the lax/tense vowel /ɛ/ and /e/ again...

 

[Doraemon-]

Aleix: /əˈleʃ/ in eastern dialects, /aˈlejʃ/ in the western ones/valencian.
Andreu: /ənˈdɾew/ in eastern dialects, /anˈdɾew/ in the western ones.
Both with /e/, as every(?) word ending in -eix and -eu.

 

[LoveVanPersie]

Thanks

Both with /e/, as every(?) word ending in -eix and -eu.

In the thread Pronunciation: the surname "Deulofeu", it was said that "-eu (hereu, europeu, museu) is more often pronounced with an open e than with a closed one." (#2) and "Also in central Catalan they tend to pronounce all -eu endings like [-ɛw] even in cases when the traditional pronunciation is [-ew]. " (#6)

 

[Dymn]

Doraemon is correct. Andreu is always pronounced with /e/.

 

[Doraemon-]

In the thread Pronunciation: the surname "Deulofeu", it was said that "-eu (hereu, europeu, museu) is more often pronounced with an open e (...)

Yes, that's why I put the interrogation, I wasn't sure if it was the case for "every" word (it's not).
As you correctly say, there are some exceptions, words ending in -eu always pronounced as [-ɛw] (the ones you put, hereu, europeu...) but most of them (greu, breu, meu, teu, seu...) are with a "closed e" ([e]).
For the verbal desinence in -eu: voldreu, sabeu, direu, diríeu..., it varies on the dialect ([-ɛw] in Central catalan, [-ew] in some other places).
I suppose these "more often" with one or another depends on which dialect and which words we consider (it's almost always [-ew] in mine).