Re: Heavy Metal Phonation

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> > >
> > At any rate, Rammstein's
> > singer(s) seem to use [S] for it an awful lot
> (that's on topic isn't
> > it?). (At least especially in the song 'Ich Will',
> which sounds more
> > like 'Isch Will' to me.)
>
> *nods* common in some dialects. I'd associated it
> (i.e. [S] for
> standard [ç]) with Saxony, off-hand.
>
> Though now I think about it, I think some parts of
> western and
> south-western Germany have also merged /S/ and /ç/
> -- Kirche "church"
> and Kirsche "cherry" both sound like the latter word
> --, which leads
> to problems when they try to speak "properly" (i.e.
> introduce [ç] into
> their speech) and hypercorrect (e.g. talking about
> "friche Fiche"
> instead of "frische Fische").
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>
  In a similar vein, just this last weekend I was
watching Nascar with my roommate, and this Country
singer did the Star Spangled Banner. Interestingly,
she sang *spaN-Neld* instead of *spaN-geld*. There
also seems to be a general tendency towards lenition
of voiced stops in American popular music, and
voiceless stops often become unaspirate, even when
initial. Final nasals are often not pronounced at all,
instead the vowel is nasalized as in French speech. I
think it has to do with trying to keep a steady stream
of air going. But in other contexts, I've heard
ejective initial stops in words the vocalist wanted to
emphasize--but in American *speech* it seems more
common to use retroflex or geminate for emphasis.
                                                Travis


		
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