----- Original Message ----- From: "Philipp Reichmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: OT: Re: Pronunciation of U+0429 (was RE: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Uni ts)
> German native > speakers are an extreme case: almost everyone without phonetic > training will say that [ç] and [x] are the same *sound* (because > they're allophones of the same *phoneme*), even though they're really > different. But [ç] and [χ] aren't very different: [ç] is how native Swedes pronounce "k" before some vowels. [χ] is how many immigrants pronounce the same letter. [ʧ] is how it's pronounced in the Finnish dialect. Stefan _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!
