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Re: question for German speakers...

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2001, 18:42
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dan Seriff wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote: > > I've learnt Hochdeutsch in school, and since my stepfather's family is > from Munich, that's the pronunciation scheme that I've been the most > exposed to. > > I'm going to use [~] to indicate a rhotic vowel, and [-] for a syllabic consonant.
Thanks.
> > > 1. Guten Tag. > > gut.n- tA:k >
what does the /./ mean how you use it?
> AmsO:nAb.n-t Ab.n- vi~ mAin@ SvE:st@~ b@zu:xt > > I tend to run together adverbial prepositional phrases (especially > expressions of time). And for some reason I've never devoiced the [v] in > the /schw/ consonant cluster, although I gather that's the norm.
If you look at mine, you'll see I voice the [sch] instead, though both in Austria and in Sachsen things tend to get voiced, eg [saechsisch] is pronounced /zEgzIS/ -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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