Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

Quoting Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>:

> Oh, right. I'd thought Swedish had gone through yet another round of sound
> changes without me noticing.
> I'm not very good with CXS –– that's [,nɔʁ'sʲø:pɪŋ]?

Not quite - [r\`] is a retroflex approximant, and [s\] is palatalized
*post*alveolar (more or less the same as [S_m_j]).

Now, there are dialects which would have an uvular rhotic here.

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> > Quoting Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>:
> >
> > > Benct:
> > > Norrköping is pronounced ['pe:kiŋ]? What??
> >
> >
> > Norrköping is pronounced [,nOr\`'s\2:pIN] or thereabouts. "Peking" is a
> > popular
> > nickname of the city, the precise explanation for which is disputed - it
> > may be
> > a metathesized variant of the element _köping_ "town".
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andreas Johansson
> >
>

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Andreas Johansson

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