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Hi!
Recently I noticed a pronunciation difference between -_en_ in the
ending -_chen_ and anywhere else in German. Up to then, I had thought
final -_en_ would be phonemically [log in to unmask] (. marks a syllable break),
which would universally be phonetic -[n=].
But it seems that the derivational ending -_chen_ behaves differently.
I caught myself consistently pronouncing -[C@n] instead of -[Cn=].
I asked a few other people and they did the same. Which could mean that
we need to distinguish phonemic -/@n/ and -/n=/.
Some minimal pairs for testing (there aren't too many, that's why the
examples are kind of strange):
Reihchen vs. reichen ('small row/queue' vs. 'to reach/pass/surfice; rich')
As I said, I thought the two'd both be:
/'RaI)C@n/
But I pronounce them differently:
['RaI)C@n] vs. ['RaI)Cn=]
(There is no secondary stress in -_chen_, which is often cited as a
cause for phonetic phenomena in German (/@/ is not found in any
stressed syllable in German).) Maybe we need the morphological
break in the phonemic transcription?
/'RaI)#C@n/ vs. /'RaI)C#@n/ ?
Another one:
Fellchen vs. Felchen ('small fur' vs. '{kind of fisch}')
['fElC@n] vs ['fElCn=]
Those are the only minimal pairs I found. There are more words in
-_chen_ that are not diminutives and consistently get -[n=]
Kirchen 'churches' (nom.pl.) ['k_hI6)Cn=]
Brüchen 'breaks/fractions' (dat.pl.) ['bRYCn=]
Speichen 'spokes' (nom.pl.) ['SpaI)Cn=]
brechen 'to break' ['bRECn=]
laichen 'to spawn' ['laI)Cn=]
...
These all have a stem in -_ch_ plus an ending -_en_.
While all diminutives in -_chen_ consistently get -[C@n]:
Tierchen 'small animal' ['t_hi:6C@n]
Küßchen 'small kiss' ['k_hYsC@n]
...
These all have a stem in whatever plus an ending -_chen_.
Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? Did anyone know this?
-_chen_ does behave strange in other places, e.g. TTBOMK, it is the
only reason why postulating /C/ vs. /x/ seems feasible for German.
Still, I don't know how to explain the phonetic difference described
above other than postulating that '-_chen_ is different'.
Bye,
Henrik
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