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Chemnitz dialect phonology


This article is about the phonology of the Chemnitz dialect, a variety of Upper Saxon German.

The pharyngealized vowels correspond to the sequences of vowel + /r/ in the standard language.

Unstressed /ɪ, ɛ, ɵ, ɞ, ʌ/ may all be reduced to [ə].

[ə] is often fronted [ə̟] when utterance-final.

Monophthongs are allophonically pharyngealized if a vowel in the following syllable is pharyngealized. In Dresden, this also applies to consonants, as well as consonants and vowels in the syllable after the one with a pharyngealized vowel.

Furthermore, monophthongs are somewhat retracted when they precede dorsals, except /j/. The retraction is strongest before /χ, ʁ/. A weaker retraction occurs when monophthongs follow a dorsal (except /j/) with, again, the strongest retraction after uvulars.

/ʊˤː, oˤː, ʌˤː, ɔˤː, aˤː/ are often diphthongal [ʊːɒ̯ˤ, oːɒ̯ˤ, ɪːɒ̯ˤ, ɔːɒ̯ˤ, aːɒ̯ˤ] in careful speech. Monophthongal realizations are common before consonant clusters in syllable coda, where they are optionally shortened.

In cognates of some Standard German words, speakers fluent in Standard German occasionally produce [yː, ʏ, øː, œ], which contrast with /iː, ɪ, eː, ɛ/ as well as /ʉː, ɵ, ɵː, ɞ/, for instance Brüder [ˈpʁyːtoˤ] ('brothers'); in other cases, they are pronounced the same as /iː, ɪ, eː, ɛ/.


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