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Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, February 9, 2004, 10:01
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

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Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>