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Timeline for Pronunciation of 比较

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Dec 11, 2012 at 18:17 comment added simon what does this have to do with Taiwanese?
Dec 7, 2012 at 3:51 comment added deutschZuid @user2223 Although the vowel portion of jiao4 is slightly different in Wu, the consonant portion is still a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate - identical to the pronunciation in Mandarin. I am not aware of any possible elision between an affricate and a preceding vowel. That'd just be weird. So either you misheard it or the person used a different word.
Dec 7, 2012 at 2:00 comment added Colin McLarty Could be. But are you saying this based on familiarity with actual Shanghai pronunciation? When someone is saying one book is larger than another, I think they would say 比较大 and not 不要大.
Dec 7, 2012 at 0:31 comment added tomriddle_1234 probably faulty hearing. it can be 不要(bu2 yao4)。比较 also can be pronounced as 'bi3 jiao3' depends it's the meaning of comparison or the meaning of fairly
Dec 6, 2012 at 22:49 comment added Colin McLarty It was not Wu dialect and the people were not trying to be nauseating. It is either a colloquial elision, or my faulty hearing.
Dec 6, 2012 at 22:31 history answered tomriddle_1234 CC BY-SA 3.0