Re: Nasality pa svenska

PAvel Iosad wrote:
>Hej,
>
>Kou skrev:
>
> > Okay, so I'm thinking that, without the benefit of having met a
> > native speaker since I decided to learn Swedish, I've managed to
> > develop a reasonably unembarassing Swedish accent, grave and acute
> > accents and all.
>
>Heh :-) Now my accent is quite misleading, 'cause my _r_'s are uvular,
>but of course they make my _rt_'s, _rd_'s, _rn_'s and _rs_'s
>postalveolar...
Postalveolar? Not that there's a world of acoustic difference, but
prescriptively and following my lect they should be retroflex, along with
/r/ itself. Uvualr /r/ isn't uncommon, tho' people who use it often have
pure dentals for /rt/, /rd/ etc (a trait better not acquired by a L2 speaker
in my mind - it sounds very dialectal).

>Finns det folk som studerar också svenska här, I wonder? :-) (hur säger
>man 'I wonder' på svenska? ;-))
Literally, _jag undrar_. If used as a tag question like that, syntax'd
switch to _undrar jag_, altho' I wouldn't normally use such a construction
at all (not that its wrong, tho'). And _studerar_ should switch place with
_också_.

                                                  Andreas


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