John Cowan wrote:
> Garth Wallace scripsit:
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>
>>I think where vowels are concerned, "labialized" is synonymous with
>>"rounded".
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>
> 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]
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