Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 10:35 |
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At 08:23 2002-06-21 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >
> > Uhm, are you sure? From what I understand, the velar part comes from
> > the
> > fact that [u] is a back vowel, and the labial part comes from the
> > roundedness. To my ears, at least.
> >
>
>You may be right. I may have forced on the labialisation when trying to
>pronounce [u_^], which made it sound different from [w]...
I think French /u/ is over-rounded. At least that's how I perceive it, but
it should be noted that my "Swedish" /u/ is under-rounded.
/BP 8^)>
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