Re: Pronunciation of Japanese "j"

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 10:08 5.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> >
> > > Mind you, Andreas, that Swedish _tj_ is alveopalatal [s\]
> > > rather than dorsopalatal [C].  Try comparing the way a
> > > German says _Chemie_ with the way you say _kemi_!
> >
> >Let's do a YASDT, shall we? Near as I can tell, I've got [S] for /C/.
>
> Are you from Finland? :)
Born in Lidingö, grown up on Gotland, in Stenungsund and Linköping, currently
resident in Aachen.

But unless my memory is failing me completely, finlandssvenska tends to [S]
for /S/ and [C] for /C/? (To any foreigner think that seems like a reasonable
pronuncation, I assure you it's not!)

BTW, since you seems to be well-informed on Swedish dialects, could you
comment on a claim I heard a while ago that there are Lapplandish varieties
that merge /S/, /C/ and /rs/ as [S]?

                                                       Andreas