Mar 27, 2007 10:53
17 yrs ago
French term
syllabe décolorée
French to English
Art/Literary
Linguistics
freudian psychoanalysis
This expression crops up in Freud's Wit in relation to the unconscious, translated into French in my article, shortly before the Schleiermacher pun on homonymy / Eifersucht = Eifer sucht. Colourless syllable? Unaccented? unstressed? unvoiced?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | weakened syllable |
Odette Grille (X)
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| 2 | schwa |
Conor McAuley
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Proposed translations
13 mins
weakened syllable
...
Note from asker:
| The published translation, which I eventually found through another route, has "watered-down syllable". |
4 hrs
Conor McAuley
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schwa
I don't really understand the question, to be honest, but perhaps this fits.
A schwa is a neutral vowel sound (see below), like the second vowel sound in "better".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa
"An ***unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound*** in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel. Such vowels are often transcribed with the symbol <ə>, regardless of their actual phonetic value.
The mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed. In IPA phonetic transcription, it is written as <ə>. In this case the term mid-central vowel may be used instead of schwa to avoid ambiguity."
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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-03-27 15:16:16 GMT)
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I think I'm completely off the mark, but I won't hide the answer just for the moment.
A schwa is a neutral vowel sound (see below), like the second vowel sound in "better".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa
"An ***unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound*** in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel. Such vowels are often transcribed with the symbol <ə>, regardless of their actual phonetic value.
The mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed. In IPA phonetic transcription, it is written as <ə>. In this case the term mid-central vowel may be used instead of schwa to avoid ambiguity."
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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-03-27 15:16:16 GMT)
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I think I'm completely off the mark, but I won't hide the answer just for the moment.
Discussion
weak being used in phonetics (but could be used here)