Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:32:35 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:18:13AM +0200, Christian Thalmann wrote:
>> 2) I recorded a latter of similar words from
>>    different languages to demonstrate that I do
>>    distinguish all the vowels mentioned in 1).
>>    Explicitly, the words are: beat [i], bit [I],
>>    Beet [e] (High German), bed [E], Bett [E] (High
>>    German), bat [&], bätt [a] (Swiss German),
>
>Huh.  A word spelt |bätt| is pronounced [bat] in Swiss German?
>Is this a case of the orthography not catching up to a sound change,
>or just standard orthography applied to a non-standard dialect, or
>what?
I was also wondering, as a speaker of another dialect of Swiss German (but
I've heard many Züritüütsch speakers, too). I'd say that Swiss German [&]
is more open than English [&], but it's still different from Italian [a],
which is the most forewarded [a] I know of. I always have the impression
that Swiss German [&] is still more open than that Italian [a].

I'm looking foreward to listining Christian's recordings!

g_0ry@_^s:
j. 'mach' wust

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