Hi!
=?windows-1250?Q?=A3ukasz_Korczewski?= <lucasso@...> writes:
>
> right, i'm aware of this, but i like the idea of the loss of the quantity in
> favour of the quality and i pay attention only to this side of the matter.
> and so i did comparing my system of phonemes with the one of german.
Yeah. It's very realistic. I think Dutch works this way: many `long'
vowels are really short (only in front of {r} they are long and {a} is
always long, I think. Maybe the rules are more complicated). The
quality difference matters in Dutch. I had quite a hard time learning
that. :-)
`vies' vs. `vis': [v_0is] vs. [v_0Is]
> do you mean [E:] -> [e:]?
Exactly.
> > Well, almost, yes. The [a]-[A:] opposition is found in coastal
> > dialects in the north only (e.g. in Hamburg) for /a/-/a:/. They
> > almost have [{]-[A:] there and possibly even use [{] for /6/:
>
> interesting, my Langenscheidts Taschenwoerterbuch (that's my only current
> source with IPA) has definitively [a] when short and in diphtongs and [A]
> when long or halflong
Really?! I thought Langenscheidt was quite reliable. I'm sure that's
only true in coastal regions (for High German). Standard High German
has [a]-[a:].
**Henrik