Koiné-Tendenzen im Schweizerdeutschen?

Christen, Helen

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“…-ene plurals in Swiss German in their early stages of diffusion Our data demonstrate the diffusion of the -ene suffix from disyllabic feminine nouns ending in -i to a range of further nouns, providing large-scale empirical support to previous claims mainly based on anecdotal evidence (e.g., Christen, 1997Christen, , 1998Graf, 2015;Landolt, 2010). Unsurprisingly, the main factors driving this change seem to be age and region, which corroborates, on a large scale, Catillaz's (1982) findings from two small villages.…”

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“…Despite the lively debates, evidence on the diffusion of -ene plurals is mostly anecdotal (e.g., Christen, 1997Christen, , 1998Graf, 2015;Landolt, 2010;Rowley, 1997). A rare empirical exception comes from a study conducted in two villages by Catillaz (1982), who reported instances of innovative -ene plurals in disyllabic feminine nouns, which seemed to be determined mainly by place and age.…”

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Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change

Steiner,

Jeszenszky,

Stebler

et al. 2023

Lang Var Change

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Although personality-related factors play a crucial role in sociolinguistics as conceivable sources of language variation and change, there is insufficient quantitative evidence on such relationships. Using a large and balanced sample (n = 1000), this study investigated effects of personality traits on the use of a Swiss German plural marker in its early stages of diffusion. Besides age and region, conscientiousness and extraversion emerged as the most important predictors: less conscientious and, to a certain extent, more extraverted speakers were more likely to contribute to the diffusion of the morphological innovations under investigation. Based on our results, we argue that less conscientious speakers might monitor their own speech and that of others less closely, thus adopting innovations earlier, whereas extraverted speakers may act as successful brokers in transmitting innovations from one social group to another.

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Section: The Linguistic Variable: -Ene Plurals In Swiss Germanmentioning

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Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change

Steiner,

Jeszenszky,

Stebler

et al. 2023

Lang Var Change

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“…Despite some tendencies of dialect leveling ( Christen, 1997 ; Eckhardt, 2016 ), German-speaking Switzerland presents considerable dialectal variation in a relatively small geographic area ( Christen et al, 2010 ; Glaser and Bart, 2015 ). Its sociolinguistic situation can be characterised as a medium-dependent diglossia ( mediale Diglossie ; Ammon, 1995 ) with dialect being spoken in all everyday situations, and standard German being the preferred variety for written communication.…”

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“…Its sociolinguistic situation can be characterised as a medium-dependent diglossia ( mediale Diglossie ; Ammon, 1995 ) with dialect being spoken in all everyday situations, and standard German being the preferred variety for written communication. In inter-dialectal settings, instead of a regionally-accented standard variety, everybody speaks their own dialect, leading to a high number of dialect contact situations ( Christen, 1997 ). Furthermore, spoken dialects are often used in the media, so that Swiss Germans are exposed to different dialects on a daily basis and can be considered to possess broad knowledge about dialectal variation.…”

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The Role of Acoustic Distance and Sociolinguistic Knowledge in Dialect Identification

Ruch

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Listeners are able to quite accurately distinguish between different dialects of their native language, but little is known about the process of dialect identification and the phonetic cues listeners use to identify someone’s regional origin. This study examines how different segments, acoustic between-dialect distance, and the listeners’ knowledge about a dialect contribute to this process. Native speakers of Grison and Zurich German were asked to categorise isolated words spoken by eight speakers of Grison and eight speakers of Zurich German. Stimuli contained either none, one, or two segmental cues to regional origin. The presence of one dialect-specific segment was enough to allow for an identification rate well above chance. Sensitivity measures and analysis of reaction time showed that the two dialect groups largely relied on the same segmental cues. Acoustic distance to the other dialect, quantified as Euclidean distance in the F1 × F2 vowel space, generally facilitated dialect identification, but interacted with native speakers’ knowledge about the dialects: in segments which listeners explicitly associated with one of the two dialects, acoustic distance facilitated dialect recognition to a larger extent than in segments in which listeners were not aware of dialectal variation. The results suggest that, depending on the listener’s prior knowledge about a dialect, acoustic variation is weighted differently. Further analysis showed that Zurich listeners were more sensitive to the dialect differences, responded faster, and presented a more marked own-dialect response bias than Grison listeners. These findings are in line with the status of Grison German as a marked dialect and Zurich German as a neutral dialect, and suggest that, depending on their own dialect’s status, listeners used different decision strategies.

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17. Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling

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2010

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Koiné-Tendenzen im Schweizerdeutschen?

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Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change

Extraverted innovators and conscientious laggards? Investigating effects of personality traits on language change

The Role of Acoustic Distance and Sociolinguistic Knowledge in Dialect Identification

17. Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling

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