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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2005-02-28 21:30:19
Subject: Please critique my pronunciation of Gothic
Hello,
I just posted a sound file of myself reading Mark 2:1-7 in Gothic. Here is the link:
http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/mark_gothic.html
I am considering making voice recordings of a larger body of Gothic text. Before I do that, I'd really appreciate careful criticism of my pronunciation, in case there's something I'm consistently doing wrong.
Some of the details of Gothic pronunciation aren't known for sure, e.g. in what environments the voiced stops had fricative allophones. I followed Wright's suggestions (or, at least, I meant to). The exception, where I knowingly break from what Wright says, is with ai and au, where it is generally agreed nowadays that the historically distinct categories had merged into monophthongs.
If there are any other cases where you think Wright's view on the pronunciation is incorrect, please let me know.
Thanks!
--Sean