Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment

On 12/10/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> uvular trill. In *my* dialect of German I usually have [R]
> (the fricative one!) for /r/ in syllable onsets and [6] [...] in codas.
Same for this native German speaker. (Hamburg, northern Germany)

With the exception that /a6/ is [a:] -- the last word in "auf großem
Pfad" and "auf großer Fahrt" sounds the same to me. (At least in
colloquial pronunciation, which has [f] for syllable-initial /pf/.)
But I have [6] after [E o: O i: I u: U y: Y 2: 9].

Interestingly, I don't seem to have [e:6] -- there are words which I
pronounce with [E6] which I found out at some point have long [e:] in
standard German (e.g. "Erde, Herd"), something I didn't know; I
thought my pronunciation in those words was standard. (Learn something
new every day!) I don't know whether all my /e6/ have turned into
/E6/, but it's possible.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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