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Re: Labiodental approximant?

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Friday, March 3, 2000, 17:37
* BP Jonsson (bpj@netg.se) [000302 19:42]:
> 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/). > > BTW /f/ is also normally labiodental in Swedish and bilabial in Norwegian.
Nope. They're labiodental in the eastern dialect area (mine) and although I can fake most of the other dialects I don't know them well enough to claim anything about their phones. No such thing as spoken 'norwegian'... we may have two written forms, but if you're talking about speech, you -always- have to mention at the least whether your data is based on eastern or western speech... the phoneme-inventory is different, the intonation, the morphology, the actual shapes of the tonemes (tonal patterns) are swapped... (We get to memorize the differences in early high-school. I actually kinda liked it, but then I've always been a bit weird :) ) t.