Re: Dutch questions
| From: | Hemmo <kyrawertho@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 8, 2006, 14:41 |
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>Is "américain" really pronounced with a closed vowel in Dutch? In French,
that'd be /amerikE~/, with an open-mid vowel.
I wasn't sure about that one, but I now see it should have been a word with
'in' instead of 'ain'.
>> I: leeuw
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>That's funny. I thought this one was pronounced /le:Yw/. Robert & Van Dale
gives /le:w/ and in your dialect that's /lI:w/. /I:/ is a good compromise
between /e:/ and /Y/.
In vowel + uw the uw is one sound (/w/) and I think ee is always /I:/ when
followed by r, /j/ and /w/, if not at least it's different from the ee in
'beek' or so.
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