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Re: Many consonants

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 19:00
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:57:45 +0100 > From: Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...>
> I had a very hard time convincing our previous choirmistress that > "bruiloftszaal" (wedding hall) really has only /fs/ in the middle: > all the rest is assimilated away.
It's a losing game. I keep telling choirmasters that I don't want to sing consonants they don't pronounce themselves when reading the text out as prose. It doesn't help. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)