Re: Describing diphthongs
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 7, 2004, 2:27 |
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Garth Wallace scripsit:
> I think where vowels are concerned, "labialized" is synonymous with
> "rounded".
Actually not. German rounded vowels are really labialized rather than
rounded (the lips are open in the center but not at the corners);
Swedish vowels are in fact rounded (the lips protrude).
I think.
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