Re: German aus- etc.

Hi!

"Steven W. Lytle" <BestATN@...> writes:
...
> E. 6. Where a voiceless consonant at the end of a syllable is followed by a=20
> voiced consonant opening the subsequent syllable, there will be no=20
> assimilation, i.e., neither will the voiceless final consonant devoice the=20
> consonant which follows, nor will the voiced quality of the initial consonan=
> t=20
> affect the consonant which ends the preceding syllable.  The speech sound=20
> takes over immediately after the voiceless consonant has been articulated: =20
> aussetzen ['auszets@n] Absicht ['apzi=E7t].
>
> this is in complete conformity with the german i've heard and spoken.
Yes.  And it is exactly how I pronounce it.  There is no assimiliation
between the sounds (maybe a very short, unavoidable floating change at
their boundary).

The only sandhi rules that I use and which I suspect many Germans use
that are not part of a typical explanation in a dictionary, are
assimilations of the place of articulation of nasals after plosives:

 baden    [ba:.dn=]
 Lappen   [la.pm=]
 packen   [pa.kN=]

Even at word boundaries:

 in Stuttgart   [in.StUt.ga6t]
 in Bielefeld   [im.bi:.l@.fElt]
 in K