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Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Monday, April 9, 2001, 10:08
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote: > >I believe SAMPA has [1] for the barred i. I'd like to ask the Swedes on > >this list: isn't there [1] for some/all {i} in some/most Swedish
dialects?
> >Or at least I've noticed a rather weird sounding vowel in Swedish in
words
> >that I know to contain an etymological (and thus orthographic) {i}.
> Not that I've know of, but some dialect have a weird pair of vowels known
as
> "Viby-i" and "Viby-y". They're kind of [i] and [y] copronounced with a > voiced fricative sound. I don't know of any SAMPA representation for 'em, > but there's IPA "i-plus-superscript z" and "y-plus-superscript z", so one > could probably coin [i_z] and [y_z].
One other very common thing is consonantal "aftertouch" (don't know of a good term for it). All closed vowels get either a [w] almost [B] or [j] almost [j\] afterwards. My vowels are so closed that they're almost consonantal altogether. A friend of mine imitates me be saying _vi_ 'we' as [vij\] almost [vj\] with a syllabic [j\]. And the scary thing is that she's right. ||| daniel -- <> Daeselaidh goddi mis giall! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> Lwodadh giall! <> www.geocities.com/conlangus <>