Re: Diphthongs
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 18:02 |
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In a message dated 10/5/01 8:03:30 AM, bc_@MAIL.RU writes:
<< Or [aj:], e.g. in Swedish (AFAIK). >>
This doesn't sound possible.... No, wait! Forgot about geminates. So
what you have there is an [a] followed by a geminate [j]?
<<What do you mean by 'coloring'? As you said earlier, a diphthong must
shift from one vowel articulation to another.>>
Because the end result isn't quite a vowel, I guess. If you were to go
in with some equipment and take the period of the [j] and physically lengthen
it you'd get a vowel... Maybe it's just my English preconceptions, what with
are [aj]="i". It was difficult at first to think of that as something other
than one sound.
-David