Re: OT: Afrikaans

En réponse à Henrik Theiling :


>I thought that was the same hypercorrect thing as in /e:/ which, as I
>just posted, always sounded like [e:I] or [eI] or [e(I)] to me.
Let me make that clear: I've *never* ever heard /e:/ and /o:/ (realised
simply as [e] and [o] except in front of /r/ where they are lengthened) as
diphtonguised except in Northern dialects or sometimes before /r/.
Certainly not here (where diphtongues are even monophtonguised) nor in the
South or in Central dialects.

>Definitely diphthongised, too.  And /2:/ always sounded like [2:Y] to
>me.  I write the first part long because I don't feel the two parts
>are evenly long.
Agreed on the difference of length. But to hear simple vowels as
diphtongues, you must have had access to only a limited sample of Dutch
accents. I myself also have had access to only a limited sample, but
diphtonguising /e:/ and /o:/ is definitely not part of what is common in my
sample.

Christophe Grandsire.

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