Re: Diphthongs (was Re: 3 q's - X-Sampa)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 13, 2004, 0:38 |
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, M. Astrand wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:14:30 +0100
> >From: Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
> >Subject: Re: Diphthongs (was Re: 3 q's - X-Sampa)
> >
> >I *think* the difference is that both halves of a
> >Finnish diphthong are about equally long, whereas
> >in Italian the unstressed part of the diphthong is
> >much shorter.
>
> Do you think this has something to do with the unstressed part being
> in Italian i or u, ie. something close to j and w, whereas in Finnish
> it doesn't need to be a high vowel? I'm not sure what I'm getting at,
> but it seems like it could mean something. Or does Italian have
> diphthongs with unstressed non-high vowels?
Well, my dialect of English for one has two kinds of diphthongs... the
kind like /&i/ ('long a'/hay) which is very quickly over and even though
it moves from one sound to another, could be described as a single sound,
and the kind like /oi/ (joy) which is much longer and the two individual
parts are quite clearly. All my diphthongs end in the general area of [i]
or [u\].
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Tristan