Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect
Not to be confused with Orsmaal-Gussenhoven Dutch or an Orsmaal-Gussenhoven accent, the
accent/regional variety of
Standard Dutch spoken in Orsmaal-Gussenhoven.
The Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect is a subdialect of Brabantian spoken in Orsmaal-Gussenhoven, a village in the Linter municipality.
Phonology
Consonants
- /h/ is restricted to morpheme-initial position. It may be dropped by some speakers, either sometimes or always.
- /r/ has a few possible realizations:
- Apical trill [r] or an apical fricative [ɹ̝] before a stressed vowel in word-initial syllables.
- Intervocalically and in the onset after a consonant, it may be a tap [ɾ].
- Word-final /r/ is highly variable; the most frequent variants are an apical trill fricative [r̝], an apical fricative [ɹ̝] and an apical rhotic affricate [ɾ͡ɹ̝]. The last two variants tend to be voiceless ([ɹ̝̊, ɾ̥͡θ̠]) in pre-pausal position.
- The sequence /ər/ can be realized as [ɐ], as in many varieties of German. Alternatively, /r/ can be dropped: [ə].
- /β, j/ appear only word-initially and intervocalically.
Vowels
Centering diphthongs of the Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect, from
Peters (2010:241).
/ɔə/ is not shown.
- Short /y, o/ occur only in a few loanwords from French.
- Among the open-mid vowels, only /ɛː, œː/ are open-mid [ɛː, œː], whereas /ɛ, œ, ə, ɔ/ are actually mid [ɛ̝, œ̝, ə, ɔ̝].
- /ə/ occurs only in unstressed syllables.
- When stressed, short vowels cannot occur in open syllables. Exceptions to this rule are high-frequency words like [βa] 'what', and loanwords from French, such as [dəˈpo] 'depot'.
Diphthong phonemes[8]
Starting point |
Ending point |
Front |
Central |
Back |
Close |
uɪ |
iə |
|
Close-mid |
ei øy |
eə |
|
Mid |
|
|
əʊ |
Open-mid |
ɛɪ œʏ |
ɛə ɔə |
ɞʊ |
Open |
aɪ |
|
aʊ |
- /iə, eə, ɛə/ occur syllable-finally and before labial and alveolar consonants, where they contrast with /iː, eː, ɛː/.
- /ɔə/ appears only before tautosyllabic /t, d/.
References
Bibliography
- Peters, Jörg (2010), "The Flemish–Brabant dialect of Orsmaal–Gussenhoven", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (2): 239–246, doi:10.1017/S0025100310000083