Re: USAGE: Dutch pronunciation
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 14, 2000, 19:01 |
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mangiat wrote:
> 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@].
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> What? Didn't you use -n to mark the plural?
Yes, but most Dutch speakers don't pronounce final -n after shwa.
Doing so is either Southern dialect or pedantry/spelling
pronunciation.
Irina
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Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas