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Re: List of natlangs

From:Oliver Cromm <ocromm@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 6:46
Hi,> Allemannisch is (so I've read) a term for some Germanic dialects such
> as Austrian and Swiss German.
I don't know about Alemannisch spoken in Austria, but in Switzerland and neighbouring Germany, and Alsace and ?> > > Germany:
> > > national langauge --> German > > > in German: Deutschland ['dojtS.land] (hard final /d/)> >=20 > > I thought it was a [t]?> > That's what you'll find in a "learn German" book, but to me it'snotas har= > d as> a [t]; an actual hard t as in "Kante" would be *too* hard; I'drather
write=> [d].
> I know Germans who pronounce it as an ordinary [d], in fact; I don'tthink > either form is "correct" or "incorrect".
The problem here is that we are dealing with two features differentiating German [d] and [t] *, namely voiced/unvoiced and - actually more important! - aspirated/non-aspirated. The final "d" is unvoiced but normally non-aspirated. Nevertheless it sounds stranger to me to make it voiced than aspirated, and that's why I vote for /t/ here. * took me some time to find square brackets on the Japanese keyboard... Oliver from Chiba