Re: More Þrjótran

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Henrik Theiling skrev:
> > This is a good idea, I think I will adopt this.  (BTW, I
> > perceive Icelandic long /E/ as [e:E)] for the speakers I
> > heard.)
>
> That's quite possible.  The same type of realization is
> AFAIK the rule in Faroese and common in Swedish and Norwegian
> too, e.g. in the speech of yours truly, at least in closed
> syllables -- I have long /i/ [i:e], long /e/ [e:E] and
> long /E/ [E:e].  Go figure out the rule! :-)
Heretic! High long Swedish vowels should have a consonantal offglide!

In other words, my /i:/ tends to [i:j] or something like that.

                                                    Andreas

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