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Re: Name mangling (Was: Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, March 11, 2005, 14:36
Quoting Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>:

> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 19:40 +0100, Andreas Johansson > wrote: > > > > Carsten Becker wrote: > > > > > > Oh. I didn't know that. It'd be "Yoansun" ["joAnsUn] > > > then, or even possibly ["wAnsUn] because of [o, u] -> > > > [w] sometimes. > > > > *Slaps myself* > > > > That's to say, the first 'o' spells [u:]; the second one > > spells [O]. > > *slaps himself as well* Of course!! I should have read all > the preceding mails where you already said your last name > is pronounced ["ju:AnsOn]. Is at least [An"dre:As] right, > writing [r] for the sound you have for that in Standard > Swedish?
Almost right: [an'dre:as 'ju:ansOn] with front a's. My /r/ is retroflex. There appears to be some disagreement whether that's the standard pronunciation. I do not much care how you pronounce the rhotic, as long as i) it's present in some form, ii) it isn't [w].
> It'd be "Yuanson" ["juAnsOn] -> [wAn"sOn] of course.
Why the accent shift to "son" in the second form? Andreas