Re: OT: Dutch pronunciation questions
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 10, 2002, 18:41 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> I am not so deeply into phonetics to understand what this H-thing means.
It's the semivowel in French "nuit"; a rounded version of /j/. So
the whole diphthong sounded like [oj], but with rounding throughout.
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