Re: the "oa"-sound in German before r
- From: Oliver Cromm <lispamateur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:22:59 -0500
* gunananda@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Koran [ko: ra:n] [ko@ ra:n]
Meran [me: ra:n] [me@ ra:n]
Admira [at mi: ra: ] [at mi@ ra:]
[...]
Beeren [be:@n] (most common) [be:@ ren] (common) [be: ren] (uncommon)
Your informants must be speakers of Northern variants. I am not
particularly a Southerner, but I would hardly produce the first one,
except in an unstressed context ("Heidelbeeren").
Note that there are many different ways to realize an [r] in German, you
may not be hearing it the same way I would (so the last variant could
appear to be the first one when you don't recognize the [r] as such.)
The variants with [o@], [e@] are common, but sound a bit childish to me.
That probably means that there is a tendency to use them, they are
"easier" in a way, but they are not universally accepted as standard.
Then again, not a few people insist that there are several incompatible
local standards of German pronunciation, and no one standard accepted
everywhere in the German-speaking areas.
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