Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 25, 2004, 18:13 |
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:39:12 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Okay. Either I wasn't paying attention, or it was a quirk of my
> (non-native) teachers' speech, but I have the same vowel in all four
> of |chantais|, |chantez|, |Räder|, |Reeder|; they are homophonic pairs.
> (That vowel is [e], which I learned to pronounce in Spanish class).
Pronouncing |Räder| and |Reeder| the same (both with [e:]) is common
in Germany, at least in northern Germany where I live. However, this
pronunciation is not considered standard; prescriptively, |Räder| has
[E:] and |Reeder| has [e:]. (And |Redder| has [E].)
As for French, I can't give a native-speaker opinion, but I was also
taught that -ais/-ait/-aient (at least in verb endings) is [E] while
-ai/-ez/-er/-é is [e].
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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