Re: OT: /x\/ (was: English and front rounded vowels)

On 2007-12-11 John Vertical wrote:
 > BTW, would you happen to kno if anyone actually
 > labiodentalizes the sound anymore? Lingual details aside
 > ([s`_P] ~ [f_G]...), that's what, over here in Finland,
 > is AIUI thought of as the "pedantical" pronunciation.
 > (While, as you say, "everyone sensible" here uses [S] ~
 > [s\] ~ [s`].)
 >
 >

At least around here (the West Coast of Sweden) the strongly
labi(odent)alized versions are receding but labialization as
such is not gone. As for the 'pure' [x\] it ain't labialized
but a [xS)] coarticulation. I have no idea about when and
where it is or was spontaneously used.

I've heard some people in the north of Sweden use /f/
instead of /S/ in some loan words learnt from radio and
television, BTW. I wonder if even [X] can sound like [f] to
those who lack it in their own lect?

Anecdote #2: Once on the radio I heard a guy call in who
used a so weak [x] that his _jourarbetare_ sounded like
_**horarbetare_...


/BP 8^)>
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