Re: OT: Unicode 5.0

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On 1/10/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > > What's an 8\ ? I don't see that on the CXS chart.
>
> > It's a sign Benct Philip Jonsson and I are trying to make the 'stablished
> one
> > for a labialized rounded mid-high front vowel
>
> Oh.   Isn't "labialized rounded" redundant?   How do you labialize
> without rounding?
You can't labialize without rounding, but you can round without labialization.

Labialized rounded is a kind of exaggerated rounding with the lips projecting
out  a bit. In Swedish, the back rounded vowels are pronounced with this sort
of rounded, but this doesn't contrast with normal rounding. However, the
formerly back 'u' vowel retains it, despite having become front, and only
differs from 'ö' by the later having normal rounding.

(Again, my 'lect is deviant on this point - instead of [8\:] I have [u\:] with
normal rounding. I still labialize my back rounded vowels.)

                                                     Andreas

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