Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology

This article is about the phonology of the Orsmaal-Gussenhoven subdialect of Brabantian.

Just like Standard Dutch, Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect devoices all obstruents at the ends of words.

Morpheme-final /p, t, k/ may be voiced if a voiced plosive or a vowel follows.

The Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect contains 18 monophthong and 12 diphthong phonemes. A notable feature of it are quite unusual contrasts between /eː/, /ei/ and /ɛɪ/, as well as between /øː/, /øy/ and /œʏ/.

Stress location is the same as in Belgian Standard Dutch. In compounds made of two nouns, primary stress may in some words fall on the head noun, e.g. [stɒtˈhaːs] 'town house'.

Many loanwords from French preserve their original stress, which may cause the preceding vowel to be reduced, e.g. [kəˈdaʊ̯] 'cadeau'.

Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect does not have a lexical tone distinction. However, Peters (2010) states that "it appears to use 'non-distinctive accent', which shows phonetic features of accent 2 of Limburgian dialects."

The sample text is a reading of the first sentence of The North Wind and the Sun, read by a female native speaker. The orthographic version is written in Standard Dutch, adjusted by Peters (2010) to match the dialectal version more closely.

[də ˈnœrdərβ̞ɪnt ʔɛn də zɔn ˈʔadən ən dɪsˈkøːsə ˈɛvə də vɾoːx | β̞i van ən tβ̞iː də ˈstɛɾəkstə β̞as | tʏn dʏɪ ʒyst ˈɛmant v̥œrˈbɛːkɔm bə nən ˈdɪkə ˈβ̞aɾəmə ja̰s a̰ːn]

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