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

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

>> > (BTW, is _å_ in Scandinavian langs actually [O]?
> In Danish you have: å = /O/, o = /o/, u = /u/.
> In Swedish: å = /o/, o = /u/, u = /8/.
> In Norwegian: å = /o/, o = /u/, u = /u\/.
Very interesting! I had put Norwegian (my main Scandanavian interest)
at å = /O/, o = /u/, u = /}/, but didn't feel entirely confident about
it.


> 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!


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