Re: Swedish Phonetics

--- In cybalist@..., Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:

> Hmmm... I've heard this tendency to pronounce "nånstans"

as "nånstansch" as well, but I'm not convinced by Morten's and
Torsten's suggestions. It is definitely not caused by influence from
immigrants (though other tendencies of pronounciation may be, it's
still too early, I think, to tell what influence immigration will
have) and it's got nothing to do with the way people speak in
Stockholm or Skåne: I associate this pronounciation with countryside
dialects from the middle of Sweden, people in Stockholm or Skåne
don't speak like that.

>
> Hakan
>
> To Piotr & other experts on Swedish phonetics,
> I've recently heard my girlfriend and others pronounce
> "nånstans" (somewhere) as "nånstansch" i.e with /-nsh/
> and not /-ns/ at the end. The same goes for other words
> like "förräns" vulgar av förrän meaning until) pronounced
> /förnsh/. I suppose this is an analogy from somewhere but
> I can't figure out where. Any ideas on how it arose ? Not
> that there has to be a specific reasons for it, just
> wondering.

Without using any particular knowledge of how people speak in the
middle of Sweden: exaggerating the features of what you believe
to be the dialect of the prestigious capital is exactly what one
would expect from a person from "the provinces", especially women.

Torsten