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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2005-03-06 14:34:02
Subject: Re: Please critique my pronunciation of Gothic
Peter,
You read really fast! I had a hard time listening to the details in pronunciation because it flew by so fast.
How recent is the Braune/Helm you refer to? The Braune grammar goes way back; the fourth edition was from 1895, for example. Sayce's 1954 appendix to Wright's grammar discusses some of the same pieces of evidence, but comes to different conclusions. For example, he says that the gold ring of Bucharest probably dates to the third century, not the fourth as previously thought.
Yes, you were correct that I was pronouncing the _f_ as a labiodental. I'm going to think about that one some more.
Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency in the way I was stressing the words. I wish Wright were more explicit in the evidence for the set of rules he sets forth.
Why does he say that the prefixes such as fra- were stressed in nouns, I wonder?
--Sean