polish sibilants

Sep 27, 2011 14:49

So, uh, I have a favour to ask our Polish speakers ( Read more... )

howdoyousayallthewordsinyourlanguage, polish, phonetics, phonology

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aletheiafelinea September 27 2011, 20:43:40 UTC
Heh, you wouldn't like to hear my diction, but how about a text-to-speech translator? www dot ivona dot com is pretty good and well recorded. The additional advantage - you can choose and change the order of words. I've tried to make a list of juxtaposed words. All they are real words, so t-t-s should manage it (however, some of them are rare so... let's see).

car - czar
cel - modzel
dżelada - czekolada
cień - dzień
słoma - złom
solić - mozolić
swój - zwój
Sofia - Zofia
szary - żar
sztuka - stukać
miesić - mierzić
kosić - wozić
marszruta - śruta
kasza - Kasia
Staszek - Stasiek

Is it what you need? Or I misunderstood you? Tell me if I can add something.

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bluebeard September 28 2011, 04:55:25 UTC
oooh! very good! I will try this, yes! And I like those minimal pairs / near-minimal pairs; they should prove helpful. thank you!

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aletheiafelinea September 28 2011, 18:53:17 UTC
Nice to be help. Good luck!

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zireael07 October 3 2011, 15:38:30 UTC
Actually, the miesić - mierzić pair is tricky. To be the minimal pair, the second word needs to be mierzyć /m'ieʐɨtɕ/. Mierzić is pronounced /m'ierzɨtɕ/ and is an example of a rare situation where the "rz" letters don't constitute an /ʐ/ sound.

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aletheiafelinea October 3 2011, 17:01:01 UTC
True, but then there is a problem with i/y, which can be confusing...
We can try something other:
zwęzić - pędzić
więzy - kęsy
gałęzi - gęsi
wąsy - dążyć

Heh, quite a fun, by the way.

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