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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.

For me (and Wiktionary), <Familie> is /faˈmiːli̯ə/ Is there anything that means this can't be /faˈmiːljə/? I recently read (in a footnote somewhere) that some analyses of German phonology posit two phonemes that are phonetically close to [j] but the same author ignored the distinction in the rest o...

sehen, Seen [zeːn̩ ~ zeːən] Is Seen [zeːn̩ ~ zeːən] as well, or is it just sehen that could be [zeːən]? And what's with the syllabic nasal right after a vocalic nucleus? I know it could be pronounced, but it sounds like so much extra articulatory effort. When speaking, both are monosyllabic [ze:n] ...

In my northern regiolect of German, I neutralize the distinction in almost all contexts when speaking. They might be marginally phonemic for some people (even in the north) in Konjunktiv forms like "gäbe". When reading children's books to my son I find myself making the distinction as a sp...

[...] https://i.ibb.co/F668PGW/gleep-glop-glorb.png I was recording this very quietly on a laptop's inbuilt microphone and got some very wacky results, so take this with a grain of salt. Or maybe take an entire shaker of salt with a grain of this. I hesitate to draw any conclusions from this but it...

In Germany, there are places like Mecklenburg, which have /e:/ as the first selling even though Standard German spelling leads many people to believe it to be /E/. This actually is part of a more general pattern in Northern Germany, where <eck> is read as /e:k/ instead of expected /Ek/.

Maybe the sound changes affected function words and lexical words at different rates? Just guessing here, really.

Indonesian has a movie subtitle register which mixes literary language (using tak as a negation and cliticized pronouns as you do in love songs), Standard Indonesian (especially in syntax), and colloquial/slang words.