Re: Further Questions on Phonology

BP Johnsson wrote:
>
>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/.
I don't really know what sound [r\`] signifies, but my dialect has [z`]
(voiced retrofelx fricative) as an allophone of /r/.

                                                          Andreas

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