Re: *oy vey*

On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:50, Christophe wrote:
> En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:
> > Theoretically, "f" is unvoiced, "w" is voiced, and "v"
> > is somewhere in the middle.
>
> Rather, in Standard Dutch and Southern dialects, f is a voiceless
> labiodental fricative, v is a voiced labiodental fricative and w is a
> voiced labiodental *approximant*.
It's very hard to observe one's one normal (non-careful) speech, but I
think in mine /f/ and /v/ are both voiceless, but /f/ is tense and /v/
is lax. Same for /s/ and /z/, especially initially.

ObConlang: we had loads of fun with that in the role-playing campaign,
when a character from a region where /v/ is very much voiced came to a
region where it's only lax, and protested that his name _Vurian_ was
pronounced as what he understood as Faurn.

   Irina

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