<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 13 June 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_rhondshoven@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Roger Hondshoven <<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com
</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Phonology"
2007.06.11 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hello Diederik,</span>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">East-Brabant has no aspiration of p, t, k, neither initial nor final.</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kind regards,</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Roger Hondshoven</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Diederik Masure <<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
didimasure@hotmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br>Subject: Phonology <br><br></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hoi, I was wondering if any of you is known with the following phenomenon: aspiration of final p, t, k. </div>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Generally the Germanic languages have only aspirated ptk at
the beginning of words, and not in the clusters s+ptk. Medial/final ptk
are always unaspirated. This is as far as I know the case in German,
the Scandinavian languages and English. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(Standard) Dutch doesn't have any aspiration at all. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">As
with standard Dutch, we (in Antwerp? In whole Brabant? that's what I'm
trying to find out) seem to have aspirated ptk, but only word-finally.
As bdg is devoiced word-finally they also get aspiration. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Toe
(closed) thence is pronounced "toe", but boot (boat) "booth" - with
aspirated t, not English th. Kar is pronounced "kar", but boek sounds
as "boekh". </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">None of the books on dialect I read ever mentions
this, but noone seems aware of it either, here. But when I was in
Norway, people tended to hear "Diederik" as "Diederich" (with [x]).
Recently someone in amsterdam also commented on my weird pronunciation
of final -k. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And today my sister told that at diction classes, she
learnt that people from here should take care not to pronounce paard
(horse) as paarth because that makes unclear buzzing when speaking into
microphones. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">So I think it's clear to assume there is something, although it never seems to be investigated properly. </span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">So
my original question was, anyone else (mainly asking our other Flemish
members, but also the others) knows this feature from his own dialect
or is it regionally very limited? </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Greets, </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Diederich</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">PS
because the Norwegians interpret it as "ch", I am not totally sure
whether it is aspirated kh or an affricat, kch, tþ, pf with a weak
'whispered' ch/th/f in the end. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Phonology</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hoi, Diederik (or Dietrich or Derek)!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
You wrote above:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>
Generally the Germanic languages have only aspirated ptk at the
beginning of words, and not in the clusters s+ptk. Medial/final ptk are
always unaspirated. This is as far as I know the case in German, the
Scandinavian languages and English.</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
This needs to be tweaked.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In many German and Southern England English dialects, at the very least, plosives (p, t, k) are
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">always </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">aspirated before a vowel, not only word-initially; e.g.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">G. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Peter</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ["p_he:t_h@`]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">E. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Peter</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
["p_hi:t_h@`]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">G. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Tüte</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ["t_hy:t_h@] (paperbag)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
E. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">potato</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [p_heU"t_hEIt_heU]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In
some dialects of England, strong aspiration has led to the development
of /t/ to [ts]; thus ["p_hi:ts@`] and [p_heU"tsEItsheU]. (This rule
applies in some Danish dialects, but only in syllables with main
stress; e.g. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ti</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [tsi'] 'ten'.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In
other aspirating varieties, though, it does tend to be restricted to
the syllable with main stress, such as in Germany's Low Saxon and in
English varieties of North America, Australia and New Zealand. This
enabled the development of the "America flap" from intervocalic /t/ in
varieties of American English and Low Saxon of German. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Typical" English of South Africa tends to lack aspiration, probably due to Afrikaans influences.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I used to think that no variety has word-final aspiration. So I'm surprised and very interested about your report.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I'm not doubting what you say, bu could it be that your Norwegian friends are influenced by the German name (
</span><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="-1">Theodoric >)</font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Dietrich ["ditrIC]?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">