Re: Vowels?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 25, 2002, 9:32 |
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At 11:42 2002-01-24 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>>You mean an approximant version of the alveolopalatal voiced fricative
>>found in
>>Polish? I didn't even know that could exist :))) . By the way, in X-SAMPA
>>it is
>>noted /z\/, but no approximant variant exists, whether in X-SAMPA or IPA.
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>Probably because it makes no phonemic difference anywhere.
Yes, the sound occurs in Swedish, but merely as an allophone of /j/, e.g.
in the word _familj_. The Swedish Dialect Alphabet has a symbol for it.
/BP 8^)>
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