Wie sagt man in der Schweiz? Wörterbuch der schweizerischen Besonderheiten

Kempf, Franz R.; Meyer, Kurt H.

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“…To a certain extent, both ALM and SSG can also be used in the other variety's domain, and Swiss people generally code-switch quite quickly, indicating that we are not dealing with a standard-dialect continuum (Hove 2008a: 71). Given this state of affairs, contact between the two varieties is inevitable, so it is not surprising that research has reported interferences on the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical level for a long time (see Panizzolo 1982, Meyer 1989. Regarding the specific topic of this study, i.e.…”

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Vowel quality in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German

Zihlmann

2021

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Despite being one of the official languages in Switzerland, the phonetic properties of Swiss Standard German (SSG) have been studied insufficiently. Regarding Alemannic (ALM) dialects, most of the available phonetic studies have dealt with consonants rather than vowels. To counteract this general lack of research, this study investigates the long-vowel inventories of four ALM dialects as well as their respective SSG varieties regarding vowel quality. The aim of the study is twofold: on the one hand, it provides the first comparative acoustic analysis of ALM and SSG vowels; on the other hand, it investigates to which extent interference from ALM dialects determines the vowel qualities of SSG varieties. To this end, four male and four female speakers from Bern, Chur, Brig, and Zurich were recorded producing each vowel three times, which resulted in a corpus of 1632 tokens. The results show that ALM vowel quality is basically transferred to the SSG varieties in two dialect regions: Chur and Brig. Instead, in the SSG varieties spoken in Bern and Zurich certain vowel qualities did not match the ALM ones, mostly for <a> that was fronted in the SSG variety of either dialect. Additionally, the Bern SSG <ä> was produced as both [┋ː] and [ӕː], while <o> was realised more in the back.

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Vowel quality in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German

Zihlmann

2021

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Wie sagt man in der Schweiz? Wörterbuch der schweizerischen Besonderheiten

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Vowel quality in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German

Vowel quality in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German

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