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<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 - 24 October 2007 - Volume 08</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span id="_user_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2007.10.24 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" id="mb_1">
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<div>Hi Ingmar</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Subject: LL-L
"Phonology"<br><br>Thanks, Ingmar</div><span class="q">
<div><br>I understand that Afr ui > y, uu >
ie etc, but what exactly is the<br>difference between i and u in pit vs put,
kul vs kil etc? In my ears, Afr .<br>short i sounds more like Dutch short u
[2], than like Dutch short i [e].<br>So in that case, no unrounding but
rounding?</div>
<div> </div></span>
<div>You'll have to get the boffins
to tidy this up, but given the graphic representation of the vocal areas of the
mouth - draw the mouth sideways & divide the inside twice vertically &
horisontally into nine spaces. The tongue & lips move the acoustic area up
& down, backward & forward for the different vowel-sounds (I am making
this explanation not because you don't know better, but because I don't) & I
expect the boffins are having fits. I am not a master of IPA</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Anyhow, the front vowels are
spoken close to the teeth, from high to low, as in the English 'pick', 'bed'
& 'sad'. For the back vowels you must draw the lips forward to deepen the
acoustic space. These from top to bottom in English sound like 'book', 'oar'
& 'pot'. The midmost vowel of all is the schwa. The middle lower vowel is
how the southern English, not the Northern English, pronounce 'us'. The middle
upper vowel is one my wife can't pronounce, between 'pick' & 'book'.
Afrikaans writes this as 'U' & 'UU' as in 'u en uwe' = you & yours &
'vuur'= fire. I suspect this 'Y' in English 'lyttle' used to be sounded the same
way. The best an Englishman can do is 'i enn eever' & 'ffeeeRR'</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Right. If you round
the schwa space (pout your lips to say it) you get a slightly
different middle - unemphatic - vowel sound, which Afrikaans uses as 'put'
= waterhole, 'kus' = coast, 'rus' = rest, 'sus' = lull etc. Another sound my
wife can't pronounce. Conceded, a non-native speaker might have to listen for
it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The difficulty is most evident
with vocal glides upward or downward. Where an Afrikaner would say "'n puik
pruik" = a smart wig my wife, no doubt under the cultural influence of Yiddish,
says "a poyk proyk" & most Poms (sooo sorry, fellahs, about the rugby hey!)
"a pake prake". & for our "'n meeu in die sneeu" they would try "a meeow ern
dee sneeow" (this
notwithstanding that English <u>has</u> 'meeu' but pronounces it rather shorter,
more like 'myou').</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I hope this serves for an
explanation. I am well aware that the nine-space vocal graphic is inadequate for
all but Standard English & useless for any other language.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Have fun</div>
<div>Mark</div>
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