Trends in Phonetics and Phonology
Studies from German-speaking Europe
Edited By Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid and Volker Dellwo
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- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 406 pp.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
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In Standard German German (SGG), the high vowels /i, ɪ, y, ʏ, u, ʊ/ are clearly distinguished by vowel quality. This distinction has often been disputed for Standard Austrian German (SAG). In this contribution, we will consider the question of whether SAG speakers neutralize the quality of high vowel pairs. Read pseudowords of 18 SAG speakers raised in Vienna and 7 SGG speakers have been subjected to acoustic analysis (F1, F2, F3, duration). Overall results indicate that high vowel pairs are distinguished both by quality and by quantity. However, quality distinctions are less pronounced in SAG than in SGG. This result raises the question of whether the differences observed for SAG are large enough to justify a quality distinction. Moreover, some age-specific differences regarding duration and F1 of the rounded vowels can tentatively be interpreted as an ongoing sound change. Perception tests will provide a more in-depth understanding of the implementation of this contrast.
Keywords
Standard Austrian German, vowel merger, sound change, vowel quantity
* Corresponding author: sylvia.moosmueller@oeaw.ac.at, Tel: +43 1 51581 2503, Fax: +43 1 51581 2530
a Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wohllebengasse 12–14, 1040 Vienna, Austria ← 79 | 80 →
1.0 Introduction
In Standard German German (SGG), all vowel pairs, with the exception of a-vowels, for which a quantity distinction is assumed, are distinguished phonologically by vowel quality (Jessen et al., 1995; Simpson, 1998). Vowel length is, if at all, an...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions