LL-L "Phonology" 2003.09.24 (08) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: John Duckworth <jcduckworth2003 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Orthography


Ron, a very quick question here, I promise! You mention the word _Schotsche
kar_ ['SOtSe 'k_ha:] (<schottsche Karr>) "Scottish car(t)."
I wonder, you have not transcribed final -r in the phonetics. Does the
Hamburg dialect drop its r's after vowels?

Regards,

John
Preston, UK.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Phonology

It wasn't an error, John.  Many, or most Lowlands Saxon (Low German
dialects) have /-r/ vocalization ("deletion") very much of the type English
dialects of Southern England, New England, Australia and Zealand have.
(Exceptions are mostly the dialects at the farthest eastern and western
reaches.)

After short /a/, /r/ assimilates totally, and in many dialects the result
sounds very, very much like /ar/ pronounced in Australian English; thus
_kar_ (<Karr>) 'car(t)' and _part_ (<Part>) 'part' sound virtually idential
to Australian pronunciation of "car" and "part" respectively: [k_ha:],
[p_ha:t].

By the way, many LS dialects also have diphthongs and thriphthongs of the
type you find in Southern England, Australia and New Zealand; e.g., _tou_
(<to>) 'to', 'too' [t_he(o)U] , sounding very much like "toe" in the said
English dialects.

All of this makes many of the northwestern dialects sound very "English" to
the ears of uninitiated Germans.  Recently I mentioned that when just after
the end of World War II German- and LS-speaking refugees from the east were
resettled in the area, now under British occupation, at least one person is
supposed to have cried out something to the effect of "Goodness gracious!
They're speaking English already!"

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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