From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53215
Date: 2008-02-15
> > Can you give me an e-xample bef-ore my thoughts go. . .
> > aw-ry? I don't want to be misl-ed.
> Some
> compositions are so
> common that they are now perceived as a single root
> so that the
> glottal stop between the morphemes is lost: vollends
> ['fOlEnts],
> reagieren [reA'gi:r@...], but reanimieren
> [re?Ani'mi:r@...] (the standard
> suggests no glottal stop for the first of these and
> an optional one
> for the other two).'
>
>Like /D/ and /T/ in English
> This is not the only case in German where morpheme
> boundaries may be
> interpreted as triggering different allophones -
> another example cited
> elsewhere is:
>
> <Kuchen> 'cakes' [kux&n] v. <Kuhchen> 'little cow'
> [kuç&n]
> (/&/ = schwa).
>
> However, some Germans claim that /x/ and /ç/ are
> distinct phonemes.
>____________________________________________________________________________________
> Richard.
>
>