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Re: Danish, English _g_ shifts (was Chinese Dialect Question)

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 9:47
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.
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