At 19:53 8.12.2003, Pavel Iosad wrote:
>Hello,
>
> > But my vocalic inventory has a worrying hole where you'd
> > expect a short /e/.
Mine doesn't, but I clearly belong to the minority.
BTW my distribution of /e(:)/ and /E(:)/ mostly agrees
with etymology where it disagrees with spelling.
>Precisely what we're taught. But the teacher does concede that some
>central dialects do have it (Stockholm is supposed to have it as well,
>IIRC, which makes me wonder why that didn't make it into rikssvenska if
>the assertion is correct).
Because Rikssvenska is not based on Stockholmska
but on Uppsaliska. Moreover the merger is recent.
At 10:48 9.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > > But my vocalic inventory has a worrying hole where you'd
> > > expect a short /e/.
> >
> > Precisely what we're taught. But the teacher does concede that some
> > central dialects do have it (Stockholm is supposed to have it as well,
> > IIRC, which makes me wonder why that didn't make it into rikssvenska if
> > the assertion is correct).
>
>My mother's West Gautic dialect has it too.
You mean the distinction or the merger?
>Many Stockholmers merge /e:/ and /E:/ as [e:], so retaining the distinction
>for the short ones would produce the opposite assymmetry. That's not to say
>they can't be doing it, of course.
But IME they don't.
> Andreas
/BP 8^)
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