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Standard spoken German is not uniform. The standard pronunciation
as codified for example in the Duden Dictionary of German
Pronunciation is at best realised by trained speakers (e.g.
newscasters). This study of speakers from the state of
Baden-Wurttemberg shows how deviations from the norm occur in
practice. Interviews are analysed with subjects from a total of
eleven towns and cities. In addition, the study traces diachronic
developments by comparing data gathered from 2001 to 2003 with data
from 1961 and 1992.
Though the concept of syllabic segmentation has regained a firm
footing in the phonology of Standard German since the early 1990s,
all attempts undertaken so far have failed to provide convincing
evidence of a phonetic correlate for the syllabic segment. On the
basis of empirical investigations on Standard German the present
study establishes just such a correlate, identifiable from the
characteristics of the energy curves traceable in different kinds
of vowel. Analyses of dialectal language data form the basis for a
classification of German dialects in terms of the existence of a
phonetic correlate for syllabic segments.
This collection of articles deals with phonetic and phonological
aspects of the prosodic concepts 'syllable cut' and 'tonal accent'.
Syllable cut refers to the way in which a vowel is modified ('cut')
by the consonant following it. As such, the concept of syllable cut
is a prosodic approach representing a viable alternative to more
segmentally defined concepts like vowel quantity or quality. Tonal
accents establish lexical/phonological contrasts at word level with
the help of contrasting intonation curves. The volume presents new
findings on syllable cut and tonal accents from the following
research fields: historical phonology and graphemics, dialectology,
auto-segmental phonology, acoustical phonetics, language typology.
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