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Re: Further Questions on Phonology

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 14:02
At 18:11 2002-06-17 -0400, Christopher B Wright wrote:

> >Not necessarily. Apart from /v/ and /j/, which functionally are > >semivowels, Swedish and Norwegian have only voiceless fricatives with no > >voicing tendency, at the same time as having a set of voiced stops. > >Wait a few hundred years. It'll change. :)) I suspect that it will start >with loan words.
Nope. We have shiploads of loanwords where [z] and [Z] simply get devoiced. In the case of [Z] many even render it with [x], since [S] and [x] are regional allophones of a single phoneme in Swedish. The closest thing to a voiced fricative is the [r\`] which some speakers use for /r/. /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)