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Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, December 22, 2003, 16:02
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