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Re: Pronunciation of Japanese "j"

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 6, 2003, 16:45
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