COMPARISON OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN PHONETIC

Аннотация

This paper affords a comparative phonetic evaluation of the English and German languages. The look at makes a speciality of vowel and consonant inventories, strain patterns, and phonological tactics which includes assimilation and final-obstruent devoicing. The goal is to become aware of phonetic similarities and variations which can tell language getting to know and linguistic research. The consonants are grouped according to the parameter manner of articulation, and each group, for example plosives, nasals, fricatives, affricates, laterals, R-variants and glides, is compared in a separate chapter. Additionally, to the distinctive sounds, the most important allophonic variants of certain phonemes of both languages are looked at. The differences described in this comparison do not claim to be exhaustive, however the paper aims to give a general overview regarding the most predominant differences and similarities of the English and German consonant systems, phonologically as well as phonetically. Unless stated differently, the English referred to is RP.