Re: The beautifulest phonology
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 29, 2002, 18:06 |
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At 09:45 2002-03-27 -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>Well, the way I learned Swedish from my cousin, I'd say something like
>>[x_w2n]...
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>With a short vowel? Otherwise, perfectly normal. Indeed, my [x]s tend to be
>a bit rounded before fronted vowels.
Yes, [x] or [x_w] is perfectly normal. To be fair to Ferko's cousin it
should be told that the prescriptionists [x_S_w] is very much a minority
pronunciation. As I'm quite sure Andreas is aware of most people in
southern and middle Sweden use [x] varieties while most people in north
Sweden and Finland use [s`] or [S] varieties. I'm afraid we create
confusion by joking about this in front of a mostly English-speaking
audience...
Benct Philip Jonsson
Doktor Belfrages gata 6
SE-413 22 GÖTEBORG
031-82 45 00
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