Re: (Warning: DEP) vowel to velar offglide (was Re: Paxba-Sazena Lexicon in developement
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 7, 2003, 15:24 |
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At 15:15 6.3.2003 -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
>The exact quality of the glide probably depends on the individual;
It also depends on the quality of the vowel. In Danish the glide was [j]
after front vowels and [w] after back vowels, so that e.g. _vegr_ became
_vej_ but _skogr_ became _skov_.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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