Re: Further Questions on Phonology
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 14:02 |
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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.
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>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^)>
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