Re: Beekes.
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 26, 2008, 12:38 |
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Eric Christopherson, On 26/07/2008 01:25:
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:37 PM, And Rosta wrote:
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>> Edgard Bikelis, On 25/07/2008 22:47:
>>> BTW, is Szemerenyi pronounced /Se.me.'re.Ji/?
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>> Szemerényi, /'sEmEreJi/. I don't know if he anglicized it at all when
>> in England; the one person that I know knew him refers to him (in
>> English) as /sem@'reInji/ IIRC.
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> I think the é should be long.
/'semere:Ji/, then. I'm not familiar with standard symbolizations for Hungarian phonemes,
nor with arguments pro and con analysing the orthographically long vowels as
phonologically long counterparts of phonologically short vowels. The
symbolization /'sEmEreJi/ is (it seems to me), being more phonetically
motivated, analytically more conservative (and hence more appropriate to my
wafer-thin knowledge of Hungarian phonology)...
--And.