Re: [QUESTION] Rounded sibilants?
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2008, 11:53 |
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On Sun, 4 May 2008 16:18:12 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>The _w diacritic stands for 'labialized' which is different beast from
>rounding, which is IIRC _O in CXS and a subscript right half circle in
>IPA. Ladefoged defined rounding as adduction of the corners of the
>lips, as to form an [u], but labialization as adduction of the middles
>of the lips as to form a /B/, or a /b/ without quite closing the lips.
A rather clear distinction, but outside of trying to describe the Swedish
vowels you mention, I've never seen /_w/ used for vowels or /_O/ for
consonants...
I'm not sure where the extIPA /_9/ (superscript oe ligature) is supposed to
fit into this, either.
John Vertical
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