Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 2, 2004, 15:26 |
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Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Intramorphemically, a following 'h' indicates that the preceeding
> > vowel is long - in this case, 'ah' spells [a:].
>
> Tack så mycket! So I would pronounce the entire word "Drahtseilakt"
> (which means "tightrope") something like [dRa:t'zaj.lakt]. Ja?
Almost - [dRa:t.zajl.?akt] as Christian wrote. Well, the diphthong in the 2nd
syllable might better be indicated as [ae], but that's fine detail.
Congrats on your Swedish, BTW!
Andreas
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