Re: Danish, English _g_ shifts (was Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 9:47 |
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At 11:59 6.10.2003, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>Did you stay in Jutland? The standard language has a stop here.
>Unreleased, unvoiced, but most definitely a stop.
Ahem. It seems Í was in Jutland...
(Lars may know about Stena Line, the ferry that
goes back and forth between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn.
Probably Scandinavias most long-standing likker-smugling
operation... :-)
> > Debat doesn't work. When I pronounce it, the /b/ remains very much a
> > [b]. I strongly suspect that this is because it is in the syllable
> > onset.
>
>More likely because it's a relative recent loan... like after 1500 CE
>or so. Try peber [p_hewQ], kobber [k_hOwQ] for examples.
/BP 8^)
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