Re: The existence of low, rounded vowels
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 3, 2001, 9:31 |
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At 05:20 2001-09-01 -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>He said "one can't pronounce rounded low vowels", but we were talking about
>whether there was a rounded equivalent of [a].
And he was plain wrong! Low rounded vowels do have a tendency to get
higher if they are front and unround if they are back, but in western
Swedish dialects the opposite tendency seems to be at work: [A] gets
rounded and the low front-central rounded vowel representing Old
Scandinavian short *o attracts non-high short unstressed vowels of all
kinds, i.e. it is effectively a very low, rounded schwa. In my dialect I
pronounce _hål_ "hole" as _hôl_ [hOE:l] and _hal_ "slippery" as [hQ:l] with
a very low back rounded vowel.
/BP 8^)>
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