Re: [vIlkesalo] thanks you

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > ['vIlkESalo] is perhaps the closest rendering.
>
> I assume that the [S] is a typo for [s]?
Not.  Finnish "s", like Bengali "s", is closer to [S]; there is no
phonemic /S/ in Finnish (except in a few loanwords).

>  That's pretty close to how I'd
> pronounce it, except I'd probably use a [@] for the second vowel, and
> have a secondary stress on the third syllable.
Fair enough.  Finnish "a" isn't far from [@], whereas "aa" is distinctly
[a:].

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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