Re: THEORY: YASPR -- Yet Another Swedish Pronunciation Rant (fuit: THEORY: NATLANGS: Phonology and Phonetics: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Diphthongs)
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 15:49 |
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On Mon, 29 May 2006 09:08:33 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>Things are a bit more complicated with the high vowels. When
>short there are clearly three phonemes which are realized as
>[i], [y] and [u], but the long realization is different in
>closed syllables, where they are diphthongized [ie], [y2]
>and [u8] (sic!), and in open syllables where they have a
>rather fricative offglide: [iz\], [yz\], [uB] or even
>[z\=:], [z\_O=:] for the front ones.
Is this anything like the Viby-i that I'd read about some time ago? And can
you have [z\=:] and [z\_O=:] as allophone after *any* consonant?
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