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Wie viele Vokale gibt es im Deutschen?
Ich wage den Versuch einer Antwort für Monophthonge, und beziehe mich ausschließlich auf Phoneme. Ich verwende den Begriff Gespanntheit für das Merkmal, das einen Vokal von seinem „relativ offenerem ...
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Why is the German "qu" pronounced as "kv"?
Why do you think it's an oddity?
The sound [w] (as in the English words "wind" [wɪnd] or "weep" [wiːp]) does not exist in German language. The most similar sound that exists in German is [v].
And in ...
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Should the vowel also become a bit more open before consonant cluster by conjugation?
The answer is no.
This may seem tricky to you because in words as der Rest, die Pest, das Fest there is indeed an ɛ.
BUT, as a basic rule, pronounciation of vowels in stems is stable in German, and ...
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How can I distinguish between close and close-mid long vowels more easily?
Well, you are learning a language that has at least 30 different spoken vowels, if you count long and short vowels separately and also stressed and unstressed vowels separately. (See this question). ...
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Warum das 'e' manchmal wie 'i' klingt
Das tut es nicht -- zumindest in keinem mir bekannten Dialekt.
Allerdings handelt es hier nicht um zwei gleiche "e". Dem Muttersprachler meist unbekannt, hat das Deutsche, seinen fünf (oder ...
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Does German distinguish between /t͡s/ and /ts/?
[t͡s] is one doubly articulated consonant.
[ts] are two separate articulated consonants.
When the sounds [t] and [s] appear inside the same syllable, they are always pronounced as [t͡s], no matter if ...
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What is the origin of "depperter"
In the Bavarian language/dialect there are many adjectives, that end in -ert:
schlampert = schlampig (sloppy)
hatschert = hinkend (limping), von hatschen = schwerfällig gehen oder eine lange Strecke ...
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How to remember umlauts? (ö and ü)
What is your mother tongue? In same cases this can explain certain difficulties.
There is a path from pronounciation to writing it, but if you don't have access to the right pronounciation or you ...
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Which vowels can be reduced to schwas in informal German?
German has two different schwa sounds.
The e-Schwa [ə] (or simply Schwa) appears in reduction syllables with -e or -en ending. In addition, this e-Schwa is often reduced to nothing in syllables with -...
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How are the rules of phonetics/pronunciation named in standard german?
An integral part of phonetics (Phonetik in German) is research not only on rules of the quality but also on rules for the quantity of a vowel.
The German term for this would be
Vokalquantität or ...
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Pronunciation of consonants at a word-border
When /t/ and /z/ meet, they are pronounced as [ts], when /z/ and /z/ meet, they are pronounced as [sː] (a long [s]).
In northern German varieties lenis obstruents such as /z/ become voiced when ...
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What is "Stotterlaut" in the phonetics?
Stotterlaut itself is the sound you make when you stutter (literally stutter noise). This article mentions
Nun ist d nicht nur Verschluß-, Dental-Laut, sondern wie die Erfahrung ergibt, bei häufiger ...
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How to remember umlauts? (ö and ü)
German native speakers do not think about umlauts as variations of other vowels. They think of them as distinct letters.
The German alphabet doesn't have 26 letters like the English alphabet. It has ...
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How to remember umlauts? (ö and ü)
It's grundsätzlich yet gründlich.
So, your confusion is basically about the tonal change in regard to word class? Remember all but the shortest German words follow the same pattern:
([prefix(es)] –...
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Sounds change flavour depending on neighbours
This is what's called coarticulation: sounds are influenced by the surrounding sounds. When you say nicht Gräfinger, the /t/ is unvoiced, but the following /g/ is voiced. Your vocal tract cannot ...
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Is there a rule for realizing a-schwa before vowels as [r] at words boundaries?
Phonetics/Phonology is not really my area of research, so someone else may be better equipped to respond, but it appears to me that this has to do with the boundaries of the (phonetic) syllables. If ...
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reduction of "das" to "s"
I suspect that the former case, where the article is attached to a preceding verb («ich hab’s Problem gelöst», «er fährt’s Auto in die Garage») is more common than the latter case, where the article ...
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Pronunciation of Ernst Robert Curtius
The same pronunciation also applies to the chemist Curtius and all others with the same surname.
In words of Latin origin that end in -tium, -tius, -tion, -tial, -tiell and others with the general ...
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Which is the most used version of German?
Short answer:
The most used version of German is:
Deutsches Standarddeutsch (German standard German)
This is also the version you will learn when you learn German as a foreign language.
In more ...
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How do you write Pelé phonetically in German?
The German Wikipedia article states that the name is pronounced [peˈlɛ], but in Germany, I have always heard [pe:ˈle:], like for example in this video.
I don't speak Portuguese and I don't know how ...
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Should I vocalize non-prevocalic /R/ after short vowels?
In German the phones [r], [ʀ] and [ʁ] are free allophones of the phoneme /r/.
phone
A phone is a distinct sound, i.e. noticeable different from other sounds, that is used to speak.
phoneme
An ...
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Phonetischer Unterschied zwischen "sosehr" and "so sehr"
Es gibt keinen Unterschied in der Aussprache zwischen der Konjunktion sosehr und der adverbialen Wendung so sehr.
Es kann natürlich vorkommen, dass der Betonung halber ein Vokal in der adverbialen ...
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Liste deutscher Minimalpaare
Dies ist eine Community-Wiki-Antwort. Das heißt, dass sie jeder editieren darf (und auch ausdrücklich aufgefordert ist das zu tun) um diese Antwort zu erweitern.
betonte und unbetonte Vokale und ...
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Wie viele Vokale gibt es im Deutschen?
Meine Erfahrung vor allem beim Deutsch-Unterricht für Geflüchtete, speziell aus arabisch-sprechenden Ländern, sagt mir:
Es gibt im Deutschen 15 Vokal-Phoneme. Deutsch - die Sprache mit 15 Vokalen!
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How is sentence stress in German different than in English?
I disagree with most items in Jankas list. You don't stress words, you stress syllables. I think more correct are:
ein schönes Auto
ein schönes rotes Auto
ein wirklich schönes rotes Auto
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Sounds change flavour depending on neighbours
You might be interested to know how a non-native speaker like me hears your examples:
Sounds completely normal to me according to standard pronunciation maybe by someone from Bavaria or Austria. I ...
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Sounds change flavour depending on neighbours
I think your hearing is correct. The voice file has an additional i-like sound that doesn't belong there. The speaker makes an unnatural stop between "Ahorn" and "Straße" and even seems to breathe in.
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Rounding of /ɪ/ ending up with an /ʏ/ sound?
Your ears are ok. There are some regions in Germany where people speak [ʏ] (»ü«) where they should speak [ɪ] (»i«). In this regions words like »Tisch« or »Fisch« are spoken like »Tüsch« or »Füsch«, ...
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Aus Klängen zusammengesetzte Wörter
Ich kenne keine spezielle Bezeichnung für solche Wörter. Im Französischen gibt es ein verbreitetes Wortspiel, das auf ihnen beruht, nämlich die Charade. Im Deutschen ist dieses Wortspiel unbekannt, ...
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I need some German middle words p and b minimal pairs
Oper (meaning: an opera) and Ober (a waiter).
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