Re: Labiodental approximant?

At 09:12 +0000 1.3.2000, James Campbell wrote:
>
>When I went to Holland a few years ago I discovered that Dutch "w" is very
>similar, at least for some speakers; in Norway last year I initially thought
>that Norwegian "v" was the same too, but later it seemed more like a
>bilabial fricative for some speakers and straight /v/ for others. Experts,
>please advise...
Dutch "w" and Swedish "v" are commonly described as "labiodental
approximant".  The IPA symbol is script-v (which to my mind is rather a
lower-case upsilon).  Norwegian "v" is commonly a bilabial approximant
without velar coarticulation (wherein it differs from English /w/).  This
sound has no IPA symbol, but when I had to distinguish it (for Tibetan!) I
used a Greek lower-case psi, since that letter is visually a blend between
the IPA voiceless bilabial fricative and labiodental approximant symbols.
German has both sounds for "w", depending on dialect.

BTW  /f/ is also normally labiodental in Swedish and bilabial in Norwegian.



/BP

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