GWDA vs. Duden-Aussprachewörterbuch. Die IPATranskription im Phonetikunterricht
GWDA vs. Duden-Aussprachewörterbuch. Die IPATranskription im Phonetikunterricht

Summary/Abstract: In today’s phonetic instruction at German departments in Poland there are mainly two pronunciation dictionaries used: the Duden-Aussprachewörterbuch (Duden 2005) and the still popular Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Aussprache (GWDA 1982) published in Leipzig in 1982. The aim of this paper is to give a systematic survey and a critical analysis of the main differences occurring in the IPA phonetic transcription of the two dictionaries in question. This is to help both students and teachers in better identifying, understanding and assessing the strong and weak points in several approaches and solutions of German IPA transcription. Discussing these questions might be also useful with regard to the near future: in June 2009 a completely new comprehensive German pronunciation dictionary is to be published by Walter de Gruyter.

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