Lang, gesloten of gespannen? : terminologie voor het beschrijven van Nederlandse klinkers vanuit articulatorisch en vergelijkend perspectief

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the terminology used to describe Dutch vowels in selected literature in four languages: Dutch, Polish, German and English. The starting point will be the seven articulatory features of this group of speech sounds – we will try to determine how accurately those terms reflect the course of articulation of vowels in the given languages. In doing so, we will discuss, among other things, the terms such as long, closed and tense vowel. Due to the multilingual nature of the corpus, the second aspect of the phonetic terminology used to describe vowels will be the comparative aspect. We will try to determine whether the terms used in the various languages are international in nature and can be considered equivalents, or whether we may be dealing with different interpretive traditions that make finding equivalents difficult.