Phonetic characteristics of German unstressed vowels: The case of <i>opa</i> vs <i>Oper</i>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Phonetic characteristics of German unstressed vowels: The case of opa vs Oper

Published:2023-09-01 Issue:9 Volume:3 Page:
ISSN:2691-1191
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Author:

Tomaschek Fabian¹,Berg Kristian²

Affiliation:

1. Department of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen 1 , Tübingen, Germany

2. Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur—und Kulturwissenschaft University of Bonn 2 , Bonn, Germany fabian.tomaschek@uni-tuebingen.de ; kberg@uni-bonn.de

Abstract

Kohler [Einführung in die Phonetik des Deutschen (Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1995)] stated that German [ɐ] and [a] in unstressed syllables are merging. The present study tested this hypothesis. The contrast was found intact word-internally and word-finally. Neighborhood density enhanced its phonetic characteristics, but no effects of frequency and conditional probability were found.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article-pdf/doi/10.1121/10.0020813/18107926/095201_1_10.0020813.pdf

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