An Apparent-Time Study on Vowel Contrast in Standard Austrian German

Cunha, Conceição; Hoole, Phil

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“…The timing pattern we found leads to the assumption that the findings of [9] also hold for Austrian dialects and not only for Standard Austrian German. Actually, just the opposite applies: In many respects, Standard Austrian German is based on the Middle Bavarian dialects [19], and this fact is also reflected in the (similar) temporal organisation.…”

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“…Furthermore, the word duration should not change from CVC to CCCVCCC. However, according to [9], the vowel duration is, at least for Standard Austrian German speakers, used as a cue for vowel distinction which contradicts [1], leading to the assumption that the vowel duration is not as much influenced by the quality of the consonant as predicted. Furthermore, the study aims to show that long vowels and fortis consonants occur regularly, contradicting [3] and that vowel duration is a distinctive feature, and is therefore not as variable as proposed by [1] and followers.…”

Section: Aims Of This Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The designations long and short for vowels are preferred, as [12] showed that the terms tense vs. lax, canonically used for other German varieties (especially Standard German), are not useful for Bavarian dialects in general; the high lax vowels ([I] and [U]) do not exist. Furthermore, as [9] showed for Standard Austrian German, the vowel quantity but not the vowel quality is used for differentiation in perception. The distinction between fortis and lenis consonants is also due to the duration of the phonemes [13].…”

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Vowel and Consonant Sequences in three Bavarian Dialects of Austria

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In 1913, Anton Pfalz described a specific relation of vowel and consonant sequences for East Middle Bavarian dialects, located in the eastern parts of Austria. According to his observations, a long vowel is always followed by a lenis consonant, and a short vowel is always followed by a fortis consonant. Consequently, vowel duration depends on the quality of the following consonant. Phonetic examinations of what became to be known as the Pfalz's Law yielded different results. Specifically, the occurrence of a third category, namely a long vowel followed by a fortis consonant, seems to be firmly embedded in East Middle Bavarian.Up till now, phonetic examinations concentrated on CVCV sequences. The analysis of monosyllables and of sequences including consonant clusters has been largely neglected so far. In the present contribution, we analyse the impact of initial and final consonant clusters in monosyllables on the assumed relationship of vowel + consonant sequences. Thus, we included 18 speakers from three Bavarian varieties. The results show that in all examined varieties long vowel + fortis consonants occur and that the cluster complexity has no influence on the absolute vowel duration, contradicting Pfalz's Law.

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Vowel and Consonant Sequences in three Bavarian Dialects of Austria

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Moosmüller

Scheutz

2017

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Comparing Two Smoothing Approaches in Estimating Kinematic Parameters

Kuberski,

Gafos

2024

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Purpose: We compare two signal smoothing and differentiation approaches: a frequently used approach in the speech community of digital filtering with approximation of derivatives by finite differences and a spline smoothing approach widely used in other fields of human movement science. Method: In particular, we compare the values of a classic set of kinematic parameters estimated by the two smoothing approaches and assess, via regressions, how well these reconstructed values conform to known laws about relations between the parameters. Results: Substantially smaller regression errors were observed for the spline smoothing than for the filtering approach. Conclusion: This result is in broad agreement with reports from other fields of movement science and underpins the superiority of splines also in the domain of speech.

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An Apparent-Time Study on Vowel Contrast in Standard Austrian German

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Vowel and Consonant Sequences in three Bavarian Dialects of Austria

Vowel and Consonant Sequences in three Bavarian Dialects of Austria

Comparing Two Smoothing Approaches in Estimating Kinematic Parameters

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