Re: Tonguebreaker

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> > > PS Those [x]'s is how I say it. The Standard pronunciation is supposed
> >to be
> > > [x\] (simultaneous postalveolar and velar voiceless fricative).
> >
> >My cousin said it something like [xw] I think...last I was in Lund was
> >1995.
>
> As a cluster? That'd be a bit odd, but if you mean labialized [x_w] it's
> pretty common (especially before rounded vowels like [2] and [}], of
> course).
> >
Yeah, I think it was labialised.

---frank