Unrounded open central vowel
The unrounded open central vowel (u Oz) is the Germans in the ( standard ) pronunciation of the letter ' a common>. There is no official IPA mark for this sound . One of the following three characters is usually used for the unrounded open central vowel :
- [ a ] - the IPA symbol for the unrounded open front tongue vowel (UoV):
- This is the most frequently chosen written realization. The use of the IPA symbol [a] is one of the reasons why the UoZ is often confused with the UoV or why the two sounds are not even distinguished.
- [ ä ] - composed of the above IPA symbol [a] for the UoV and a trema ( ¨ ) as the diacritical mark for centralization / vowel weakening :
- Because of the risk of confusion with the umlaut symbol < ä >, which usually corresponds to the pronunciation [ɛ] (see unrounded half-open front tongue vowel , UhV), this symbol is used less often.
- [ a ] - the small caps - A :
- Used regularly.
Examples
Phonetic and orthographic realization of the unrounded open central vowel in different languages:
- German
- Standard pronunciation of the short < a > (sometimes referred to as higher described): [a] / [e] / [ a ]
- Standard pronunciation of the long <a> (sometimes described as lower): [a ː ] / [äː] / [ a ː]
- <a>
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jörg Meibauer, Ulrike Demske, Jochen Geilfuß-Wolfgang, Jürgen Pafel, Karl Heinz Ramers, Monika Rothweiler, Markus Steinbach : Introduction to German linguistics. Verlag JB Metzler, 2002, p. 78f.