Re: OT: Dutch pronunciation questions
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 10, 2002, 13:01 |
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--- John wrote:
> > |eu| usually changes into |ui| [Ey].
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> While traveling on the Rhine, I heard the word "sluis" repeatedly
> pronounced [sl2Hs]; is this the same thing in reverse, or what?
That would be some kind of regionalism, I think.
I am not so deeply into phonetics to understand what this H-thing means. But
what I know for sure is that pronouncing /ui/ like [2] is not standard Dutch. I
believe it is a South-Eastern thing.
Jan
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