relating to the study and systematic classification of speech sounds
Questions tagged [phonetics]
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Is there a German sound that is similarly difficult for English speakers as th is for German speakers?
Is there a sound in the German language that is similarly difficult for English speakers as th is for German speakers?
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Rounding of /ɪ/ ending up with an /ʏ/ sound?
I just watched the Italy-Holland game of the women's World Cup on ARD. The commentator, Stephanie Baczyk from Hannover, said Viertelfinale with what to my ears sounded like /ʏ/ so that it was more like /'fʏrtəlfina:lə/. Did I just mishear or is…
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Should I vocalize non-prevocalic /R/ after short vowels?
I happen to notice that non-prevocalic R could or could not be vocalized (realized as an a-schwa) after short vowels. Examples:
wirken, lernen, hart, Ort, Furcht, durch
Which way is better to pronounce it? Which is more common in everyday speech?
user34137
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Ist das Tiefschwa allein, oder hat es mit dem Hochschwa ein kleines Brüdɐchen?
Jüngst stoße ich in Beiträgen zu diesem Forum vermehrt auf den Begriff Tiefschwa für den fast offenen Zentralvokal ɐ - also etwa wie das er in Brüderchen.
Der Name Tiefschwa ist zwar von den Aussprachegewohnheiten her einleuchtend. Aber wenn es…
Christian Geiselmann
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How is sentence stress in German different than in English?
Content words (i.e. verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs) are stressed in both German and English as opposed to function words (prepositions, pronouns, articles..). However, in English (at least in American accent) in neutral speech, content words…
user34137
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Is secondary stress important in German?
Almost every German phonetic book points out the presence of the secondary stress, yet unlike English I do not see most dictionaries including Duden, PONS, Oxford, Larousse among many others refer to it in the phonetic writing. I can imagine that…
user34137
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Liste deutscher Minimalpaare
Welche Wort-Paare (und Wort-Gruppen) sind geeignet, die Unterschiedlichkeit von Laut-Paaren in der deutschen Sprache zu belegen?
Definition: Minimalpaar
Ein Minimalpaar ist ein Paar von zwei Wörtern mit unterschiedlicher Bedeutung, die sich nur in…
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Which is the most used version of German?
For UK there is Received Pronunciation, for the US there is General American. How can I find the most used version of a language, especially German? I don't know what to search exactly.
Is it "Hochdeutsch"?
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Käsearten: Wie spricht man das "ä" in Käse aus?
In dieser Wikipediaseite (Link unten) steht, dass der Laut "ä" in Käse dem Internationalen Phonetischen Alphabet zufolge als /ɛ:/ ausgesprochen werden soll, wie im Französischen "frÈre" (eher /ɛ/, kurzes /ɛ:/) oder Portugiesischen "pÉ".
Jedoch hört…
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Phonetischer Unterschied zwischen "sosehr" and "so sehr"
In einer anderen Frage habe ich nach dem Bedeutungsunterschied zwischen sosehr und so sehr gefragt.
Ergänzend dazu interessiert mich, inwiefern die beiden phonetisch einen Unterschied aufweisen.
Wäre die erste Variante (sosehr) [zoˈzeːɐ̯], mit…
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How quickly can German Native Speakers differentiate between the vowels sounds (/e:/ vs. /i:/) at the beginning of a word?
Does anyone know how quickly German native speakers are able to discriminate between the vowel sounds (/e:/ vs. /i:/) at the beginning of a word e.g. (er ‘he’ vs. ihn ‘him’) upon hearing the vowel sound (the onset)? It would be very helpful if you…
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reduction of "das" to "s"
The article das is reduced to s when it's coupled with a preposition in for example ins, ans, fürs. But would it be possible to realise das as s without prepositions in the accusative or nominative in casual speech? Would this be possible only in…
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Does German distinguish between /t͡s/ and /ts/?
Do you pronounce differently Platsfuehrer and Plazfuehrer?
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