Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

From: "BP Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Rare Phonetics


| At 15:17 2001-07-04 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
| >|
| >| I wonder can any of you produce the [oe-] which occurs in my accent of
| >| Swedish?  It's quite a common sound here since it is our realization of
| >| schwa.  It also occurs stressed, e.g. in [moe-s:A] "moss".
| >
| >It sounds like a Brooklyn pronunciation of "moss".  (By [e-] you mean the
| >mid-high central unround vowel, a more closed version of [@]?)
|
| No I mean the central(ized) equivalent of small oe-ligature: half open
| rounded central vowel.
| Sorry to give the impression there was a diphthong...

It's okay, blame ASCII.  That one I never heard, unless it's the French schwa,
which I was told is slightly rounded.  (I should know, I took two years in high
school).  The centralized [ø] (o-slash) is o-bar (i.e. centralized o), but the
centralized [oe] (ligature) is written as a closed backwards epsilon (in other
words, a small 3 with the left side points merged together).  It still sounds
like French _un_ denasalized...

~DaW~


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