Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2003, 16:02 |
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Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> proceded to dissimilate into /Q a:/, with the /Q/ merging
> with /O/ for lack of distinctness.
From what I know, Hungarian /a/ is still [Q] in standard pronunciation, and
opposed to /o/. All descriptions of Hungarian phonology use three, and not four
levels of tongue rising.
In this case, we have:
high -- front non-labialised /i/, /í/, front labialised /ü/, /ü:/, back
labialised /u/, /ú/
middle -- front non-labialised /é/, front labialised /ö/, /ö:/, back labialised
/o/, /ó/
low -- front non-labialised /e/, back non-labialised /á/, back labialised /a/.
Figure out their precise phone*t*ic value yourself.
-- Yitzik quoting Szíj Enikö "Magyar nyelvkönyv", Budapest, 1981