Spreading (phonetics)
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In phonetics , the term spreading describes the widening of the lips during the articulation of certain so-called spread vowels such as e and i. The lips are stretched (to varying degrees depending on the speaker). The opposite of spreading is rounding , in which the opening of the lips is approximated to a circle.
In most languages, leading vowels tend to spread and trailing to round. But some languages such as German and French differentiate between rounded and spread front tongue vowels of the same vowel height (e.g. [[] and [œ] in know and can), and Vietnamese distinguishes between rounded and spread back tongue vowels .
In the vowel table of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the spread vowels are shown as the left and the rounded vowels as the right half of a pair. B. the main vowels nine such pairs.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg Mayer: Linguistic Phonetics. (PDF; 7.1 MB) (No longer available online.) University of Stuttgart, 2010, p. 1 , archived from the original on March 20, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kirsten Machelett: Hypertext document accompanying the proseminar "Phonetic Transcription I" V1.1. (No longer available online.) Institute for Phonetics and Linguistic Communication at the University of Munich, 2003, archived from the original on March 13, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Melani Wratil: Introduction: Linguistics I - SS 2012 - Phonetik I. (PDF; 246 kB) (No longer available online.) University of Frankfurt, p. 8 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 13, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bernd Pompino-Marschall, Introduction to Phonetics (Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2003), p. 225 online
