Re: Nasality på svensk

At 17:23 19.11.2002 +0100, daniel andreasson wrote:

>That's got to be "Viby-i" and "Viby-y" named after the placename
>Viby. The tongue is somewhat more retracted and it has a certain
>consonantal "buzz". It's common in Göteborg/Gothenburg,
No it's not.  It **is** common in an area north of Gbg -- in mid 
(mellersta) Bohuslän -- but not in Gbg itself.  When I speak _Orustebos_ 
(["ous`t`3%bu\:s] the local dialect on the island I hail from) I definitely 
**have** these "buzzed" /i y u\/, but not when I speak Gbg 
speech.  Viby/Lidingö/buzzed vowels are pronounced with friction, so that a 
buzzed [i] is phonetically [z=].  OTOH I have actually heard nasal 
pronunciation from some young female speakers -- a generalized nasalization 
quite different from the fact that some speakers (including me) realize 
nasals before fricatives as nasalization of the preceding vowel.



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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