Re: OT: Icelandic help
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2008, 4:54 |
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Scotto Hlad wrote:
> Silly me, it never occured to me to look at the website itself. I see the
> phrase
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> ÞESSI GÖMLU GÖÐU
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> which using the Univeristy of Wisconsin online dictionary is
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> That old good.
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> Looking at my phonetic transcription from before, it never ceases to amaze
> me that what I hear and what is being said can so often be so different
> particularly with vowels.
If it's any consolation American English doesn't have /9/ and /Y/ nor
anything similar, and in the case of hearing /9/ as /@/, the effect of
lip rounding is much the same as the effect of retraction (in AusE/NZE,
original [3:] has become more like [2:] as original [u:] has become more
like [y:] --- no point in having two strategies to achieve the same ends).
And in Icelandic, the sounds written with voiced stops are, initially,
actually voiceless unaspirated stops (although in English they're very
frequently voiceless too, but maybe not in your dialect?).
--
Tristan.
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