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5. c
6. b
7. a
8. b

I think they could behave more like Eastern Romance rather than Western because of the influence of the Germanic languages, which don't tend to have such heavy amount of lenition and elision, and their isolation from the continental Europe.

1. a
2. c
3. a
4. a

Porphyrogenitos wrote:/n/ > /ŋ/ intervocalically via an intermediate stage of /ŋn/ - it only mentioned this as happening in Piedmontese, but it seems from this map it occurred elsewhere, too. Thus, the Piedmontese word for moon is /lyŋa/.

This also happened in neighbouring Ligurian, if that information is necessary.

Travis B. wrote:As for recurse, that is a word you would know if you were a programmer.

Or a mathematician.

Pole, the wrote:

ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:

Pole, the wrote:[tanˈzaɲia]

Why do you have that 'additional' /i/ there along with antepenultimate stress? That doesn't sound Polish.

It's not [i.a].

What then? A palatal glide?

Pole, the wrote:[tanˈzaɲia]

Why do you have that 'additional' /i/ there along with antepenultimate stress? That doesn't sound Polish.
[t̪a̠n̪ˈz̪æ̃j̃æ]

Pole, the wrote:[ˈrvanda]

[r̩ʷˈwa̠n̪d̪a̠]

So, is there a possibility it'd become fronted without any other o-like vowel? I'm thinking of something similar to the change in French from to [y].

Has there been recorded an unconditional change of [ɔ/o] to [œ/ø]?

infamous
machine
Also, is there a pronunciation of afraid as /əˈfrɛd/? I was taught that at school but I found it nowhere else in the world.

finlay wrote:-10°

[ˌmʲiʊ̯̃z ˈd͡ʑeɕin̪t̪͡s̪ ˈs̪t̪ʌ(p̚)ɲ̊i]
Oh my God, I forgot how much I love making transcriptions like that one!

hwhatting wrote:Łatwiej jest* krytykować, niż robić coś samemu.
It's easier to criticize than to do something yourself

*It just sounds better with jest.

Сегодня, когда мой и параллельный класс возвращался в школу из занятий физкультуры, мы пели российские песни (например «Катюша», но это только я умею петь) и один парень с другого класса стал смеяться, что моё произношение очень плохое, но когда я его спросил, чтобы сказал что-нибудь правильно, он ...

Australia
Also, do people having intrusive r add it after reduced form of to and contraction such as gonna or wanna?

Была ли это эта гроза, которой результаты лежали сегодня на трамвайных рельсах и задержали меня в школу?
Was it that storm results of which were laying today on the tram rails and stopped me on my way to school?

Vijay wrote:No, no! The nasalized vowel is phonemic! Like in Polish!

For many people, including me, it doesn't have any. I think French is a better example.

Była kiedyś taka (?)* dobra restauracja perska w Bonn ie , ale kiedy tam chodiliśmy poszliśmy/byliśmy ostatni raz, uwidzieliśmy zobaczyliśmy , że zamknęła się została zamknięta i że teraz na jej miejscu się nachodzi znajduje bistro azjatyckie. *At this moment, I have no idea how to express that in ...

Malayalam
Also, what do people without FOOT-STRUT distinction have in such borrowed words as curry?
Do they just not talk about these things?

Are there any vowels in your dialects of English which don't have long and short versions depending on the voicing of the following consonant? I'm especially interested in Australian, but I really appreciate getting any bit of information about any variety of English. Depends on what you mean. For ...

Are there any vowels in your dialects of English which don't have long and short versions depending on the voicing of the following consonant? I'm especially interested in Australian, but I really appreciate getting any bit of information about any variety of English.