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Re: Phonology

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, April 26, 2002, 11:52
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> > I must frankly admit, that I *am* a northerner. My pronunciation is [x], > indeed. > But don't teach me ABN, because I am sufficiently informed about it to > know, > that standard pronunciation of the Dutch |g| *is* [x]. Besides, ABN is > based > upon north-western pronunciation almost exclusively. >
Well, as I explained to Irina, I have three unrelated sources to back up what I know on ABN. Should be enough shouldn't it? (especially since I can't believe i would have gotten three misleading sources which happen to agree with each other).
> > Well, you could be right here. Perhaps it's just my northerner's > perception. > Probably I'm spoiled by my best friend, who is a Limburger, and whose > Dutch is > full of palatal fricatives ;) >
Well, I've already heard some Limburgs, and it's quite different from other dialects. So it's possible.
> > NB: Great, one thread added to the growing family of threads ending up > in a > discussion about Dutch :))) >
Indeed! It's getting more an more frequent :)) . Are the Dutch slowly taking over the world? (not that I would mind, it would probably improve it :)) ) Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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