Diogo Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5571 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Italian
| Message 1 of 6 17 February 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged |
Hi, I have a question about these 3 sounds: Do they have the aspirated aspect, like in table/peace/key? Or are they non aspirated, like in stab/space/ski?
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goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6367 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 6 17 February 2010 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
"The voiceless stops /p/, /t/, /k/ are aspirated except when preceded by a sibilant. The obstruents /b d ɡ z ʒ/ are voiceless [b̥ d̥ ɡ̊ z̥ ʒ̊] in the Southern varieties."
- Wikipedia
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 3 of 6 17 February 2010 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
Yes, they are aspirated. In contrast to English however, German P T and K are also
aspirated when they occur in the middle of a word or at the end of it.
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Diogo Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5571 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Italian
| Message 4 of 6 21 February 2010 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
Thank both of you.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 5 of 6 21 February 2010 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
Yes, they are aspirated. In contrast to English however, German P T and K are also
aspirated when they occur in the middle of a word or at the end of it. |
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Including syllable-initially?
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 6 of 6 21 February 2010 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
Volte wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Yes, they are aspirated. In contrast to English
however, German P T and K are also
aspirated when they occur in the middle of a word or at the end of it. |
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Including syllable-initially?
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Yes. Everywhere. That's why Germans find it so hard to learn the non-aspirated sounds.
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