Re: Obscenities
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 3:21 |
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Matthew Kehrt wrote:
> My mom, who speaks German, does not know of any differences between
> the pronunciations of the final phonemes of 'doch' and 'ich', which
> doesn't help.
That's because they're not really phonemes. The ich-lau occurs in an
environment near a front vowel (/i I e E/), while the ach-laut occurs in
exactly the opposite distribution, near back vowels (/u U o O a/).
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