Irina wrote:
> > (We have a Dutch librarian at work, and I tried to show off the other
> > day and pronounce the name of Aard van Wijngaarden to her. /Ard fan
> > w@jnGArde/, right? But I missed deleting the final <n>).
>
> Close: I'd say [art fan 'wEjnxard@].
What? Didn't you use -n to mark the plural?
Luca
> <aa> always spells [a]; <a>
> spells [A] in closed syllables and [a] in open syllables. Final
> consonants are devoiced, and even if you speak a dialect that doesn't
> devoice [v] it's assimilated to the preceding voiceless consonant.
> Standard Dutch has no [G], though some southern dialects do.
>