Tetraphthongs (was: Triphthongs)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 19:15 |
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At 20:38 14.8.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
> > bjerg [bjEQw?] ~ [bjEQ?w]
> >
> >(where: [Q] = low back semivowel)
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> Great :)
>
>I had a sneaking feeling that the rare tetraphthong might be lurking
>somewhere. But the pentaphthong must surely be as fabled as the unicorn.
>
>Ray.
Kristjan, surely _bjerget_ is pronounced [bjeQweD?] with that famous Danish
approximant [D]!
/BP 8^)>
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