Re: IPA Text-to-Speech
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 27, 2004, 11:59 |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:33:01 -0400, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>
> in German the
> gutteral "r" (at least for me) will be different depending on what vowel or
> consonant comes in front of it (I can do a reasonable uvular trill for back
> vowels, but that changes for front vowels, and it's almost impossible for me
> after any consonant except "k"; after "t" it sounds like a French uvular
> scrape).
Though German /r/ has various realisations; for me, it's somewhere
between [G] and [R] - that is, a fricative of some kind, slightly
further back than velar but not (to my ear) uvular. And I believe that
uvular fricative [R] is "officially" one of the realisations of German
/r/, along with the uvular trill [R\].
Cheers,
Philip (not a German by nationality, but born and raised there)
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>