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Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 13:22
Andreas wrote: "A pecularity of Swedish 'j' and 'v' is that a vowel
preceeding the former (within the same morpheme) is always short, and one
preceeding the later is always long. The only exception I can think of in my
'lect is the loan _kaviar_ ['kavjar`]."

Swedish has retroflexes? Swedish has retroflexes!

...

Does this prove the Swedish-Chinese link?

;)

Or is [r`] only phonetic? :| Oh well, at least there are the tones...

T

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Emily Zilch <emily0@...>Retroflexion in Swedish & Sino-Tibetan