Re: /x/ and 'inter-Germanic' (was: Intergermansk)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 30, 2005, 14:24 |
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On 30 Jan 2005, at 6.13 am, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I don't see how that's clear at all. How do we determine that a
> phoneme that the
> majority pronounces as [x] is, in fact, /S/? Especially when those who
> don't
> mostly use [s`] or [s\] rather than [S]?
Just on a tangent related to this, I believe Swedish has a phoneme
described as a simultaneous [S] and [x], I think it looks like a cross
between a hook-top h and an eng. Is this sound used to denote this
phoneme?
--
Tristan.