Re: Heavy Metal Phonation

Joe wrote:
>
> My 'huge' is definitely [hju:dZ] - [Cju:dZ] sounds rather
> old-fashioned.  And I substitute [x] for [C](and [X] for [x], though not
> nearly as consistently), which I'm told occurs in some dialects.
By 'huge' is definitely [hj...] too, but my 'queue' is often much more
like [kC...] than [kj...]. But not always.

>> and just have to
>> practise making it in other contexts as well. (That is, to
>> phonemicise(?) that allophone.)
>>
>>
>
> Well, it's isn't phonemic in German, is it?  It's simply /x/ after front
> vowels.
I was of the understanding that it was /C/ that was the phoneme and [x]
gets used in the vicinity of back vowels... 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.)

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