Re: Marked and Unmarked

On Monday, April 9, 2001, at 07:26 , Henrik Theiling wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>>
>>> Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
>>>
>>>> Er...BTW...what's a Sprachbund?  Sort of a linguistic isocline?
>
> Ah, BTW, how do you English speakers pronounce that?  In German it's
> [SpRa:xbUnt], but I suspect it's shifted a bit in English?
>
> Maybe you say [spra:kband]? :-)
>
I would tend to pronounce it as [spra:kbUnd].  i think.  my IPA not the
best.


Andy

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