Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 24, 2000, 17:07 |
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At 01:38 +0100 23.1.2000, daniel andreasson wrote:
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>> How would you pronounce _Ryttervik_ in your various natlangs?
>> Especially: where would you place the stress?
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>Nice name! It's kinda obvious how I would pronounce it. :)
>But here goes: /rYt:Ervi:k/ with a grave pitch accent,
>i.e. on /Y/ and /i:/.
Needless to say Daniel gets 10 out of 10 points! :-)
Nobody suggested anything outrageous -- even uvular [R] is an acceptable
allophone in Swedish, although I don't use it. (For the curious: I vary
between fricative and tapped alveolar allophones, although I find a trill,
either alveolar or uvular, to be the Desirable Thing.)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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