Re: USAGE: YAGPT (was Re: YASPR -- Yet Another Swedish Pronunciation Rant (fuit: THEORY: NATLANGS: Phonology and Phonetics: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Diphthongs))

Citerar Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:

> On 5/29/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> > Andreas Johansson skrev:
> > > Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> > >
> > >> I am a semi-native speaker of German,
> > >>but I've seen German |ei| transcribed as [ae] as well...
> > >
> > > [ae] is probably the commonest transcription in my experience.
> >
> > Yes, with corresponding [ao] and [o2] for the other two diphthongs.
>
> I presume you mean [o2] for |eu, äu|? That seems wrong for me; I've
> seen it rendered [OY], though, and that seems to match what I say
> pretty well.
FWIW, my German textbook writes [ae Ao O2] for |ei au eu|, whereas Duden writes
|ai au Oy|. I've also seen [OY], but I can't recall seeing it with a mid-high
initial element before. [o2] would be a flat diphthong, which feels wrong to
me.

Now, it's probably pronounced as [uQ] in some dialect just to spite me ...

                                                Andreas

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