How to pronounce the vowel 'E' in Danish

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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  • @Mrozi4k
    @Mrozi4k 2 роки тому

    Mange tak! Those videos are helping me a lot. There is no way I would figure out the correct pronunciation on my own

  • @p1k4x
    @p1k4x Рік тому

    Hi, does the pronunciation of steen(the name) apply to short or with glottal stop?

  • @allesindwillkommen
    @allesindwillkommen 4 роки тому +1

    Tak for videoen. Jeg har et spørgsmål. The word "ret" is transcribed as [ˈʁad] in DDO, so it should be the same sound as in "kat" [ˈkad]. But when I listen to the DDO audio sample, the [a] in "ret" sounds different to me than the [a] in "kat". Is there a difference in these two vowels, or is it just my bad hearing?

    • @danskudtale2749
      @danskudtale2749  4 роки тому +2

      No, you are right! the vowel in "ret" is pronounced [ɑ].

    • @allesindwillkommen
      @allesindwillkommen 4 роки тому +1

      @@danskudtale2749 Meget interesant, tak skal du have! So, is it the same "e" sound as in konkurrEnce [kʌŋgoˈʁ *ɑ* ŋsə]? I've studied phonetics, so I know it's a bit of a mess and hard to explain. But Danish really piques my curiosity. :)

    • @danskudtale2749
      @danskudtale2749  4 роки тому +1

      yes, exactly. It's the phenomenon "vokalsænkning" at work here

    • @filgos6115
      @filgos6115 4 роки тому +1

      @@danskudtale2749 Hi Alan. What is the reason behind that you don't provide bagtung A as a variant for pronouncing letter E. Why does DDO put fortung A in fonetisk transcription of words like ret, retning, tretten or træt instead of bagtung A as it is normally pronounced? Jeg kan ikke sove i natten.

    • @allesindwillkommen
      @allesindwillkommen 4 роки тому

      ​@@filgos6115 I don"t think it's that simple. The 'e' in 'ret' is neither the front /a/ nor the back /ɑ/ in the strictest sense. You need to use special diacritic marks to show the more "narrow" transcription instead of the general "broad" one to be more precise, which would be very confusing for someone who never studied phonetics. The Danish /ɑ/ is usually centralized to [ɑ̈]. The centralization is represented by the "double dots" above a vowel symbol, and the difference between centralized vowels such as "ä
      ~ɑ̈" is quite hard to discern. It took me a very long time to realize that the Danish /ɔ/ is in fact very different from the English ɔ/, for example.

  • @FyrvrkeriTVDK
    @FyrvrkeriTVDK 3 роки тому

    Fedt. :D

  • @thepigshaveflown
    @thepigshaveflown 3 роки тому

    So, shouldn't LEGO be pronounced like " "laio". It has the diphtongue "eg" and this makes an "ai" sound