60. Vokalisierung in den deutschen Dialekten

Blocking Environments in Old High German Umlaut

“…talk, walk, etc. A similar process is widespread in contemporary Swiss German dialects, but is regarded by at least some äs a recent change (since the 18th Century, Haas 1983Haas : 1111Haas -1112. ), äs well äs Romance and Slavic dialects.…”

“…The process is particularly widespread in the case of preceding non-high back vowels, äs noted generally by Haas (1983Haas ( : 1112 for individual German dialects in various descriptive accounts (see below), and of course is familiär from many dialects of English äs well. This pattern is mirrored by vocalization of /!/ between vowel and consonant in the relevant modern German dialect areas, namely assorted varieties of Bavarian, Alemannic, and Franconian.…”

Phonetic variation and its spatial distribution in urban Austria: /l/-vocalization as a sociolinguistic marker?

“…1 The urban centers of this dialect area, which are Munich and Vienna, are said to be the starting point of a vocalization development encompassing the liquids /l/ and /r/ within the thirteenth century (as it can be shown by means of their regular occurrence in medieval texts), which, for the /l/, then spread over south and east, covering Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, as well as the northern part of Styria (Kranzmayer, 1956:96;Vollmann et al, 2015:16). While vocalized /r/ (= [ɐ]) soon replaced [r] within north and south German, especially postvocalic before consonant or in final position and thereby became a standard variant (Seifter, 2013:129), vocalized /l/ remained characteristic for Central Bavarian, distinguishing this region from (all) other (sub)dialectal zones (Haas, 1983(Haas, :1111). 2 These vocalization processes often result in changes within the vowel system (for Bavarian, see Zehetner, 1977:70).…”

“…Since /l/-vocalization is regarded as an exclusive Central Bavarian dialect feature, located in the northern region of Austria encompassing the capital Vienna, Graz, or Styria (as being part of a transition zone between the Central and South Bavarian dialect area) has been overlooked for a long time. However, from time to time /l/-vocalization is mentioned to appear in more southern parts such as the area around Austria's second largest city Graz as well (cf., Haas, 1983;Hutterer, 1978;Vollmann, Seifter, Hobel & Pokorny, 2015). Though there are only a few studies dealing with this phenomenon (cf., Vollmann et al, 2015).…”

“…For a detailed description of positions in which (any kind of) vocalization of the lateral is possible, seeHaas (1983Haas ( :1112. 7 Intervocalic vocalization was searched for but found only once within the whole corpus, which points to its minor productivity.…”