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Palatalization in Austin. A sociophonetic analysis of sibilants

The dissertation describes a change in apparent time in the pronunciation of sibilants in the consonant cluster /str/. The empirical investigation of this feature in interviews from Austin shows a lower frequency profile for the sibilant in this cluster when compared to other sibilant productions. This acoustic characterization is indicative of the retraction of the tongue in the production of the sibilant. The further sociophonetic investigation provides statistical evidence for a change in apparent time that is affected mostly by sibilant duration and ethnic identification of the speaker. Additional qualitative analyses further support the interpretation of this process as a change from below.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uni-osnabrueck.de/oai:repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de:urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-202007173314
Date17 July 2020
CreatorsAhlers, Wiebke
ContributorsProf. Dr. Alexander Bergs, Prof. Dr. Markus Bieswanger
Source SetsUniversität Osnabrück
LanguageGerman
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:doctoralThesis
Formatapplication/pdf, application/zip
RightsAttribution 3.0 Germany, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/

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