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It doesn't -- but why not loan it as /s/ then? For instance, Japanese tsunami is commonly pronounced with initial /s/ here. Maybe it's kind of like a hyperforeignism? So, you want to map initial <z> to something that sounds foreign - and initial /ts/ is dispreferred - so you map it to /z/ instead. ...

Maybe English does not like initial /ts/? It doesn't -- but why not loan it as /s/ then? For instance, Japanese tsunami is commonly pronounced with initial /s/ here. Maybe it's kind of like a hyperforeignism? So, you want to map initial <z> to something that sounds foreign - and initial /ts/ is dis...

Maybe English does not like initial /ts/?

Certain varieties of Siegerländisch sound foreign to me as they have an approxinant rhotic. Also, I have a neighbour whose German sounds slighlty off sometimes all the way to uncanny valley but I can't decide if it's dialectal coloring or a very sllight foreign accent.

It's der Blog /blOk/ for me, too, as well as der Vlog /flOk/. But we are basically from the same area, I guess.

Could also be because it ends in -a, which usually marks female proper names.

Wie weiss man welchen Genus Webseiten haben? Heisst es 'der, die oder das Wikipedia/Youtube/Facebook' usw? Und welchen Kasus verwendet man nach 'auf'? Heisst es 'auf der (fem. dat.) wunderschönen Youtube'? Oder 'auf das (neutr. akk.) wunderschöne Youtube'? Oder sonstwas? Haben alle Webseiten den gl...

One thing I noticed from listening to the song Nebel by Rammstein is that Till Lindemann pronounces the word geküsst as what sounds like gek [ø] sst to my ears. Note that while Till Lindemann sings in StG, I have heard things from Germans saying he pronounces it with a noticeable accent beyond mere...

One thing I noticed from listening to the song Nebel by Rammstein is that Till Lindemann pronounces the word geküsst as what sounds like gek [ø] sst to my ears. Note that while Till Lindemann sings in StG, I have heard things from Germans saying he pronounces it with a noticeable accent beyond mere...

Looking through Wiktionary, there are also several (or many?) entries that include a note like "The modern consonantism is Central and Low German", see here for example: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dunkel#German . I guess one could reinterpret this as saying that the change was not comp...

I think part of the answer might be that German actually inherited some /d/s from PGmc *d. I tried to come up with an example but I could only think of the present participle ending -end (Wiktionary: "From Middle High German -ende, from Old High German -enti, -anti, from Proto-West Germanic *-a...

From what I am reading about autosegmental phonology, it seems there are some interesting possibilities for the tone system. If one tone can spread across multiple syllables then presumably tone changes can affect multiple syllables at once. Thus if the language has a rule dissimilating one high to...

Slightly off topic: German children also stereotypically use [mi:jo:n] to refer to large numbers (at least in my personal experience), even though standard German has [mIljo:n] for million.

Japanese palatalizes before high vowels, right?

AWKWORDOID : I would definitely need something for phonotactics similar to Awkwords. It would be great if the program could suggest licit roots/words so that I can just assign meanings. In a perfect world, this would not just be random words that follow my established phontactics but also follow so...

Reading up on autosegmental phonology really helped me in understanding tone.

In tonogenesis, what are some patterns for how syllables without a tone specifying consonant might develop? Say for instance final voiced stops induce low tone on a preceeding vowel and final voiceless stops induce high tone before final consonants are dropped. Is it plausible for syllables ending ...

Could it be that these are actually two suffixes? -tik from Ancient Greek tékhnē as in penultimate-stress Grammatik and -ik as in final-stress Physik, Kritik from Ancient Greek -ikos? I don't know if there is a real correlation though.

Btw, when counting dictionary entries, do you count the names of your conculture's deities (if they have any)? I would not count names, no. Not only names for deities, but also not names for countries, cities etc. If this is the case, then what makes morphologically complex languages favor restrict...

I think, I heard /faˈmiːli(j)ə/ before, especially when people try to speak very clearly, e.g. in order to make the spelling clear.