Open vowel
With open vowels those vowels are meant in which the mouth is relatively wide open; no other vowels are spoken with a larger mouth opening. The angle of the two jaws is large, the tongue occupies a deep position.
The “a” sounds are referred to as “open”, while the “i” - “ü” and “u” sounds are closed vowels . The term open vowel corresponds to the term deep vowel . Between the "open" and the "closed" are the middle vowels , which are spoken with a middle mouth opening.
German examples of open vowels
Open vowels are:
- [a] (short) in "Bann, Kamm, Lamm"
- [aː] (long) in “Railway, came, lame” and the
- Reduction vowel [ɐ] (short) in "Banner ['banɐ], Chamber [' kamɐ], Lämmer ['lɛmɐ]"
The reduction vowel is not always counted among the open vowels; Hakkarainen places him in the middle vowels.
literature
- Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd updated and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 , see scheme p. 739.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heikki J. Hakkarainen: Phonetik des Deutschen. Fink, Munich 1995, p. 53. ISBN 3-8252-1835-X
- ↑ Heikki J. Hakkarainen: Phonetik des Deutschen. Fink, Munich 1995, p. 27. ISBN 3-8252-1835-X