Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2001, 9:52 |
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On 4 April, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>I'll throw in some other beautiful languages from my point of view: I
>like Icelandic very much as it is spoken (my L1 is German if anyone
>wants to interpret that). I have this `Einu sini teildu
>Nordhanvinturinn og Solin, hvort theirra vaeri sterkari' in mind.
>Very nice sound. Voiceless nasals are really cool. Especially when
>they try to shout: e.g. `Sveinn' and only [svEI] can be heard...
Does that mean that the voiceless nasals are dropped when
shouting, or are they produced quietly and simply not heard?
What about voiceless nasals in the middle of a shouted word?
(I would think that trying to produce a voiceless nasal with the
intensity of a shout would be a little hard on the nose!)
I'm curious as to how it's actually done.
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
A word is an awesome thing.