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Re: some stewpid questions

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, March 23, 2002, 16:09
Daniel Andreasson wrote:


>Danny Wier wrote: > >> Second, does anyone here have a fascination with reading/ >> writing things backwards? > >I do it all the time. And I mean ALL the time. I'm way >past the "word backwards" thingy. It's too easy. I take >entire sentences and turn them backwards trying to get >the stress right and everything. > >The trickiest part is to get the tone accents right >backwards. And of course the plosives (which are >virtually impossible to pronounce correctly backwards).
Truly. I like to do this too, but without a reversible recorder it's not much fun. I assume you mean Swedish tone accents? Engl. accents are hard enough. Generally speaking, a "broad phonemic" transcription suffices, though one should try to include as much phonetic detail as one can handle (backwards), e.g. pre-aspiration. BTW a backwards recording really proves that Engl. "long" vowels have [j ~ w] offglides; to my ear, it makes Engl. sound like Russian, spoken with a parody-Swedish accent.