En réponse à Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:
>
> Hmm. I thought any civilized language would have akinda ;))
>
From what I've gathered, the Dutch take multiplicity of dialects to be a mark
of civilisation (in the sense that it means respect of different people) :)) .
>
> It would. So it's North. I hear it the way you say. A propos, can you
> then
> explain me this tense-lax distinction?
I wish I could, but I haven't the faintest idea what the difference is, and I
don't think I can readily reproduce it. I just kind of hear it...
I'm especially interested because
> it may
> help me to describe better the Ukrainian phoneme /v/ whose main
> allophone is
> definitely different from Russian [v] (which is the same as in French,
> I
> believe), but surely not [w] which occurs only before consonants and
> in
> auslaut.
>
Could Ukranian /v/ be actually [v\] (labiodental approximant)? Or is it
definitely fricative?
Christophe.
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