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Hi!!
Melroch writes:
>...
> An interesting further development is found in
> Brazilian Portuguese where [R] > [X] > [h], with
> zero as the logical next step.
>...
That's interesting, since my own dialect shows tendencies of [X] > [h]
(where there's /X/ in German, there is no /h/ in German, so no
conflicts occur). So in rapid speech, I'd pronounce {brauche} as
[bRaU)h@] (and {stehe} as [Ste:(j)@]). More examples:
{brauchen} [bRaU)hn=]
{brauch(e) ich} [bRaU)hiC]
> Also Danish and South Swedish have coalescence of vowels and
> following [R] similar to what happened to postvocalic [r\] in some
> Englishes.
And German also has a whole large set of /r/-diphthongs, where it is
realised as [6].
**Henrik