Diaeresis (phonetics)

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Diaeresis ( ancient Greek διαίρεσις Diairesis ', separation; lat. Diaeresis ) is in the phonetics and phonology separate pronunciation of two consecutive vowels , for example. B. in Aleuts (Alëuts) towards people . The opposite of the diariesis is the syneresis , which loudly pulls two vowels together - usually to a diphthong ( e.g. ei, eu, au in German).

Through the diaeresis, the vowels are divided into two syllables . This creates a hiatus , but which in many varieties of German by prosthesis of Glottalverschlusslautes [⁠ ʔ ⁠] is redeemed before the second syllable again; for example in ideal [ ideˈʔaːl ~ ideˈaːl ], poetry or oboe .

In some languages, such as French , Spanish , Dutch or Luxembourgish , the diaeresis is spelled out with a trema (◌̈) (which in English and Spanish also means diaeresis or diéresis ).

See also

• Contraction (linguistics) (syneresis)
• Diphthongization
• Umlaut , alphabet
• Digraph (linguistics)
• Monophthong , triphthong

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Baehr : Spanische Verslehre on a historical basis (= collection of short textbooks on Romance languages ​​and literatures. 16, ZDB -ID 517267-6 ). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1962, p. 17 f.