Re: ML4 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:36:40 +0000, Stephen Mulraney
<ataltanie@...> wrote:


>> There are oddball words where _o_ is /o/ in
>> both Swedish and Norwegian, and in Danish short
>> vowels are frequently one step lower than
>> what their orthography suggests.
>
> An in Norwegian, back vowels seem frequently to be one step _higher_
> than what their orthography suggests!
It seems so to speakers of languages that
haven't undergone the Suedo-Norwegian
vowel shift (essentially *a: > O: > o(:) {å},
and pushing the other back vowels before it
in the process, so that *o(:) ended up as /u(:)/
and *u(:) was pushed into the central area.

But then there are also Norwegian dialects
that are simply oddball, without quallification! :)

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