Géarthnuns Pronunication Guid e (was Re Translating 'Imagine' (( Code-switc hing in music))

> Ämne: [CONLANG] Géarthnuns Pronunication Guide (was: Re:
> Translating "Imagine" (< Code-switching in music)) Från:
> Douglas Koller <laokou@...> Datum: Fri, 12 Oct
> 2007 01:05:11 +0000 Till: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>
> From: Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
>
> > > On 2007-10-11 Douglas Koller wrote:
>
> >> > > zçakfaçens
>
> > > Doh! I guess this is *not* [Zakfa'SEns].
>
> Close: [z\akfa's\~Es]
I guess you mean [z\akfa's\E~s]. Actually [z\] and [s\] were
my first choices, since ç is [s\] in Sohlob. In practice I
have grave difficulties distinguishing [z\] and [j], since
/j/ is [z\] more often than not in my variety of Swedish. I
even got a alveo-palatal voiced lateral fricative ([z\_l]?)
in words like _familj_.

In Sohlob [z\] is an allophone of /dz\/ occurring mainly
before other obstruents and mainly in _jd_ -- in any case
only where /j/ _y_ can't occur. In Heleb intervocalic and
final /j/ is lost and initial /j/ has merged with /dz\/, so
you get one phoneme which is [dz\] initially and after
sonorants and [z\] elsewhere.

> > > Why am I inclined towards final stress, BTW?
>
> It works here.
Only in this particular word?

>
> > > Do you have a pronunciation guide somewhere?
>
> No. I did this all once in Kirshenbaum, and then everyone
> went all XSAMPA on my ass.
So, you are that old too! :-) Of course X-SAMPA is better in
every way, except those we've addressed in CXS. (I'll have
to remember to add the URL to Henrik's converter and charts
when I get to the other computer (the one with internet on
it, where Philip jr is playing the gods know what games
ATM...) If I forget just shout!)

It's all pretty much as I've been hearing it in my head! I
especially like _zç_ for /z\/: that's a digraph in my taste
(altho I notice _y_ is unused...).

Of course ch dh sh th for /tS D S T/ etc. is very much
against my taste -- I'd used c þ ð š ž. The only proper use
of -h is for aspiration or devoicing IMNSHO. You may call it
my pet transcriptional peeve.

>
> *A certain class of nouns invoke nasalization (SAMPA site
> says mark nasalization *before* the vowel, which, though a
> little counter-intuitive to *me*, is the convention I'm
> employing here), so:
I daresay I never saw it followed -- anyway CXS puts ~ after
the nasalized thing.

> Hope this address your questions, Benct,
<rubs palms against each other>

Excellent!


/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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