Re: Pronunciation keys

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>:

> The 'Swedish' -- a 'General Swedish as opposed to my Lect1
> -- pronunciation key for English which I developed for the
> use of kids may be of some interest (numbers in round
> parentheses refer to notes below the table):
[snip]
> * CHURCH  tsh       /t/+/s`/
> * JUDGE   dzh       /d/+/s`/
> * THING   th        ? (9)
> * THIS    dh
> * ZERO    z         ? (10)
> * SHIP    sh        /s`/
> * ASIA    zh        ?
Something that I've noted is that when pronouncing strange names from fantasy
literature or the like, my linguistically naive friends tend to render _s z sh
zh_ as /s s s\ s/. That's to say, they don't take _zh_ as analoguous to _sh_,
but instead just ignore the _h_. Is this something your test subjects also do?


(For non-Swedes; the letter _z_ occurs only in loanwords, where it's normally
read as /s/, eg. _zon_ /su:n/ "zone". The only remotely common exception I can
think of is _schizofren_ with the colloquial shortening _schizo_ where it is
/ts/. These words are also unusual in that _sch_ is /sk/ rather than /x/.)

                                             Andreas