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Re: Many consonants

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, November 8, 2001, 7:05
Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:12:41 -0500 > > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> > > > > Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote: > > >Not quite. For one thing, Danish doesn't deal in retroflex consonants > > >at all. Something like [EQn?st]. > > > > That looks alot like _four_ consonants to me, so _Ernstsks_ ought to >have > > seven just like Swedish _Ernstskts_. Or am I'm missing something? > >If you're thinking of the /?/, that's not really a consonant. It's the >stød, a sort of glottal gesture (glottal approximation, very creaky >voice) that co-occurs with the end of the sonority peak of a stressed >syllable. (And since the /n/ here tends to be half devoiced, the /?/ >should really go in the middle of the /n/!) > >The stød is cognate with one of the tonal accents in Swedish; it seems >that Lithuanian has something similar, which is called broken tone >(Brechton) there. There really ought to be an IPA diacritic for it --- >a superscript /?/ maybe, which JCW could then put in X-SAMPA as /_?/ >--- but since there doesn't seem to be a need for it to contrast with >a real glottal stop, it has to share that IPA symbol.
Ok. One day I ought to actually study Danish and Norwegian ... Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp