Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> At 11:36 8.2.2004, Aleksander Helgaker wrote:
> > > From my (limited) knowledge of Norwegian, I'd guess that 'tj' is [tS]
> > > and 'sj' is [S].
> >
> >Me being a Norwegian I would say that's pretty accurate.
>
> Me being a would-be phonetician I would say:
>
> _tj_ [ts\]
> _sj_ [s`]
> _kj_ [s\]
>
> But then many Norwegians seem to have _sj_ and _kj_
> merging into what I hear as [s\] but perhaps should
> be [S].
Is that [ts\] a real affricate (with laminal closure) or just an obnoxious
cluster (perhaps "harmonic")?
Andreas