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Introduction Audio example:
German loanwords in the English language In which semantic fields do you find German loanwords? Examples
Hypothesis There is a difference between German and English in the pronunciation of „s“ and „z“
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Analysed words angst abseil ersatz lebensraum lederhosen poltergeist rucksack sauerkraut schnaps schnitzel ss volkslied wanderlust wurst zeitgeist zwieback
Results Differences in the pronunciation of the graphemes „s“ and „z“ What are the reasons for these differences?
Phonotactical differences
Rules (Part One) German: Examples: zEnz mos — moz
Rules (Part Two) Examples:
Consequences Accents Misunderstandings e.g. [zip] instead of [sip]
Questions?
References http://www.goethe.de/gr/dub/projekt/deidtsp3.htm http://www.foreignword.com/ http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~ketteman/forschungsprojekte/anglizissmus/anglizismen.doc http://www.eikon.tum.de/~skudi/ http://members.eunet.at/robb/germanenglish/ http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/hans.platzer/lnintegr.htm http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~berndsen/Classes/Modelle/ws3_html/ http://www.uia.ac.be/u/bluhme/ http://www.ling.upenn.edu/