Re: CHAT: Guessing games (was: Middle English question)

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> If anyone's still interested... I thought I had sent this off before I
> left on vacation, but I don't see it.
>=20
> My best attempt at an X-SAMPA phonetic transcription of my name:
>=20
>         ["la:s "hEn?R3_kk m{_k"t_hi:?sn=3D_k]
>=20
> ([V_k] is creaky voice --- yes, I think Danish has (non-phonemic)
> creaky voice in unstressed syllables.
Hmmm. I understand that creaky voice is also a feature of northern
English and Scots English dialects as well. There are some pockets of
rural Utah where the older males have creaky voice as well; these places
were originally settled by Danish Mormons. Where did my notes go on Utah
English?

> [?] is a glottal gesture that
> occurs on the last voiced part of a syllable --- which may be after
> the vowel proper, on a nasal or liquid for instance --- and consists
> of a transition from clear phonation to almost complete interruption
> of air flow, and a return to _creaky_ phonation).
This is st=F8d, right? I understand that occurence of st=F8d is cognate wit=
h
the tonal stuff going on in neighboring Northern Germanic languages, but
not being a Germanicist myself, can't be sure about this.

Dirk

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