Re: Vocalic patterns & BrSc
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 8:19 |
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At 00:17 2002-05-09 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>The low front rounded vowel -- IPA small-caps OE ligature/X-SAMPA [&] -- is
>very rare; I think it's found in Norwegian and maybe some Turkic languages,
>but that's all I know.
It's found in lots and lots of Swedish dialects, contiguous with the
Norwegian ones that have it. At least this is the traditiona view. I for
one pronounce this phoneme as [3\], and I'ld suppose that this is fairly
common.
For doubting central Swedes: I have a minimal pair /h2nA/ 'hen' vs. /h3\nA/
'corner kick'! :-)
/BP 8^)>
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