Re: Describing diphthongs

william drewery wrote:
> --- 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]

>
>  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
There is no /w/ in Swedish.  Fricatives and liquids before
rounded vowels get rounded.

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