Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 2:06 |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:47:47 -0500, Tristan Alexander McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:
> Dunno about Germans (the ones I've heard either get it right or
> (sometimes) use [v] for /w/), but a Sinhalese-speaker I know says [w]
> for /v/ quite frequently, as well as the reverse.
Are you sure they're not simply saying /v\/, which is phonemic in
Sinhalese, and the closest thing to either [w] or [v] in that language? It
can sound deceptively like the "opposite" member of the pair, when you're
expecting one in particular and get neither.
Paul
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