Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment
| From: | Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 10, 2006, 14:29 |
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--- Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> schrieb:
> Just out of curiosity, are there other regions in
> Germany besides Franconia and Bavaria where they
> have [r] for /r/ today? I should know it as a native
> speaker, but I don't. Heh, Franz Müntefering even
> has got something in between [4] and [r\`] for /r/
> -- he's from the Rhineland AFAIK. But other than
> that I cannot think of other regions with 'funny'
> r's.
I wouldn't know. I just sort of associate the coronal
trill with southern Germany and Austria, in my mind.
> Um ... According to my Sampa references, [R] is
[Ê]> ËŒ i.e. the voiced uvular fricative, while [R\]
is
> [Ê€], i.e. the uvular trill. In *my* dialect of
> German I usually have [R] (the fricative one!)
> for /r/ in syllable onsets and [6], which is [É] in
> IPA (central open-mid vowel), in codas. I guess [6]
> comes from [M\] (IPA [É°], the uvular approximant),
> which is essentially a weakened form of [R].
Whoops! My SAMPA's a little off, it would seem.
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