Matt wrote:
> >>We have a real tongue twister in Swedish.
> >>_vaestkustskt_ which is the adjective of 'west coast'.
> >>All of '-stskt' at the end has to be pronounced.
> >>Try to say that ten times in a row! :)
> >We who live on the said coast generally say ['vEsk%skt] in normal,
> >unmonitored speech. What you say when you talk and what you say when
> >pronouncing a word in isolation is often very different! :-)
> I am, of course, not a native speaker, but when I was learning
> Swedish I would generally hear people elide the "k" in "-skt", and
> imitated this in my own pronunciation - so that "fantastiskt",
> for example, came out [fan'tastIst]. Did I get it wrong? Or is
> this /k/-deletion perhaps a dialect feature? (I learned Swedish
> in Uppsala.)
No, I think it holds for all of Sweden. And if I were to say
'vaestkustskt' a little more often (I really don't have any
reason to do it now) I'd probably elide the 'k', so it would
be [vEstkustst]... no... wait... I think I'd say like BPJ:
[vEsk%skt] because of the duplication of /st/ that would
occur otherwise. But otherwise you're right. The rule holds
for words like /ru:lIg/ 'fun' > /ru:lIt/ */ru:lIkt/ as well.
Daniel