Re: Nasality pa svenska

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> >I can curl back
> >my tongue enough to make the underside touch the postalveolar region, but
> >to get palatal articulation I have to take several tries.
> But you got it at last?  Can you hearthe acoustic similarity and difference?
No, I *always* have to take several tries.  Most of the time my tongue
uncurls before it touches my palate, and it becomes a plain retroflex.
In addition, I tend to coarticulate a glottal stop.

Frankly, saying [a?a] where ? is a sublaminal-palatal stop sounds a
lot like a seal barking.

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