Die Phonologie des Westmittelbairischen

Schikowski, Robert

doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.10991

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“…To the south, WCB extends beyond the Austrian border, but not as far as Innsbruck which belongs to the South Bavarian variety. To the east, WCB also extends beyond the Austrian border where it merges with East Central Bavarian, the latter also including Linz and Vienna (Schikowski 2009, Kleber 2017.…”

Section: West Central Bavarian and Its Relationship To Standard Germanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas SG has a phonemic opposition in the front vowel set between unrounded /i I e E/ and rounded /y Y O n/, there is no such rounding contrast in WCB (Wiesinger 1990, Schikowski 2009. At around the end of the 13th century, WCB rounded front vowels were unrounded and coalesced with unrounded front vowels of the same height (Kufner 1957, Merkle 1976, Zehetner 1985.…”

Section: Sg Front Rounded Vowelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, whereas there is an /i ∼ ia/ mapping for SG ∼ WCB in FLIEGE, they both have monophthongal /i/ in WIESE. There may also be phonetic (realisational) differences between the varieties in words of the WIESE type in which both SG and WCB have monophthongs: according to Schikowski (2009), WCB /i/ is more centralised than SG /i/.…”

Section: Sg High Vowels and Wcb Opening Diphthongsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both SG and WCB have phonemic oppositions between /e E/ that are phonetically close to CV (cardinal vowel) 2 and CV3, respectively, and in which /e/ is longer than /E/. The mapping between the two varieties is not systemic, given that BESEN 'broom' has SG /e/ but WCB /E/ and that MESSER 'knife' has SG /E/ but WCB /e/ (Zehetner 1978, Scheuringer 1990, Stör 1999, Schikowski 2009. Earlier it was noted that WCB /i/ is slightly centralised.…”

Section: /E E E:/mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Earlier it was noted that WCB /i/ is slightly centralised. If so, it is possible that WCB /e/ is the most peripheral vowel in the WCB front vowel set (Schikowski 2009). Whether WCB /e/ is more peripheral/fronted than SG /e/ is not known.…”

Section: /E E E:/mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The influence of Standard German on the vowels and diphthongs of West Central Bavarian

Wolfswinkler¹,

Harrington²

2021

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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The spoken accent of children is strongly influenced by those of their peers but how rapidly do they adapt to sound changes in progress? We addressed this issue in an acoustic analysis of child and adult vowels of West Central Bavarian (WCB) that may be subject to an increasing influence by the Standard German (SG) variety. The study was a combination of longitudinal and apparent-time analyses: re-recordings from 20 WCB children in their first, second and third years of primary school at two schools in rural Bavaria were compared with those of 21 WCB adult speakers from the same area. The question was whether the children’s pronunciation diverged from the adults’ pronunciation and increasingly so in their second and third years. Participants produced stressed vowels in isolated mostly trochaic words in which WCB vs. SG differences were expected. Both adult/child and longitudinal changes in the direction of the standard were found in the children’s tendency towards a merger of two open vowels and a collapse of a long/short consonant contrast, neither of which exists in SG. There was some evidence that, unlike the adults, the children were beginning to develop tensity (= tenseness) and rounding contrasts, which occur in SG but not WCB. There were no observed changes to the pattern of opening and closing diphthongs, which differ markedly between the two varieties. The general conclusion is that WCB change is most likely to occur as a consequence of exaggerating phonetic variation that already happens to be in the direction of the standard.

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Section: West Central Bavarian and Its Relationship To Standard Germanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sg Front Rounded Vowelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sg High Vowels and Wcb Opening Diphthongsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: /E E E:/mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: /E E E:/mentioning

confidence: 99%

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