LL-L "Phonology" 2005.12.22 (10) [E]

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22 December 2005 * Volume 10
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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2005.12.22 (02) [D/E]

> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2005.12.21 (05) [E]

[...]
> Presumably my English ears can't hear it; I'll have
> to pay special attention
> now, both listening and speaking.
[...]
>   Paul Finlow-Bates
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Hello,

Yes, modesty may serve us.

I remember that I pointed out -a couple of years ago-
that a danish scholar had taken a close look to all 28
research-investigations that 28 danish scholars had
made of a specific danish dialect.

His conclusion: each of these 28 investigations tells
us more about the mother-dialect of the investigating
linguist than about the investigated dialect.

Our ears are good. But the ears of linguists have
prejudices.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2005.12.22 (02) [D/E]

Gary wrote:

When a word begins with a vowel in German it is
  automatically preceded by a glottal stop, whether it
  is stressed or unstressed or whether it comes in the
  middle of a sentence or not.

My yankee ears can surely hear the glo'al stops. Is that something that the
other High German dialects exhibit? Haha! I can still make a Lowlands link.
Do the Missingsch (or however you spell that) have that too?
Ben

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

You wrote the name correctly, Ben, and, yes, it does apply, in some dialects 
more than in others.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron 

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