Re: Tetraphthongs (was: Triphthongs)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 14, 2000, 19:38 |
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At 1:35 pm +0200 14/8/00, Kristian Jensen wrote:
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>I can't help myself... but I have to say that Danish has something
>that may well be called a tetraphthong:
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> bjerg [bjEQw?] ~ [bjEQ?w]
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>(where: [Q] = low back semivowel)
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.
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