Re: Describing diphthongs

--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Swedish in fact has *both* kinds: back vowels are
> normally labialized
> while front rounded vowels are protruded.  The catch
> is the sound
> which I transcribe [8\] or [2_w] in ASCII: it is a
> fron vowel but
> labialized rather than rounded, so that the
> lip-gesture forms a minimal
> distinction between [8\] and [2]
>
> --
>
> /BP 8^)
> --
> B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>
>          Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
>
> (Tacitus)
>
 This may be a bit off topic, but how does one
pronounce bilabial glides before a rounded vowel?
I.e., how should one pronounce a syllable like "kwy"
(X-Sampa)?
         Travis



	
		
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