Re: OT: "Claw" (was "I'm new at this")

At 16:58 26.11.2002 +0000, Joe wrote:

>Hmm...actually, I pronounce it /bEU?/(when speaking colloquially).  Also,
>didn'y /5/ become /w/ in the Polish L with a line through it (el/, it's
>called, IIRC).  But, yes, I would say this is extreme Maggelity.
At least one source I saw identified Polish _l/_ with [M\].

At 17:05 26.11.2002 +0000, bnathyuw wrote:
>( or that funny sort of
>rounding that you get in british english where your
>lips don't really move but you still get rounding ).
Probably labialization viz. adduction of the centers of the lips rather
than the corners of the lips.
This difference is phonemic in Swedish /2/ vs. /u\/.  More exactly Swedish
back vowels are labialized, and in addition there is one labialized front
vowel along with a bunch of properly rounded front vowels.



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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