Re: YASPT
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 9:48 |
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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.
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.
Andreas
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