Development of voice onset time in an ongoing phonetic differentiation in Austrian German plosives: Reversing a near-merger

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=50bMIp3F69" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=50bMIp3F69</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2019-2006" target="_blank" >10.1515/zfs-2019-2006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Development of voice onset time in an ongoing phonetic differentiation in Austrian German plosives: Reversing a near-merger

Original language description

Sound change in the form of plosive mergers has been reported for a variety of languages and is the result of a reduction of phonetic distance between two (or more) sounds. The present study is concerned with the opposite development of phonetic differentiation in plosives (akin to a phonetic split), a less commonly reported phenomenon that is taking place in Austrian German at the moment. A previously small (or null) phonetic distinction between fortis and lenis plosives - a presumed near-merger - is gradually developing into a clear phonetic contrast in younger speakers. In the present study, voice onset time of word-initial plosives was measured in two generations of Austrian speakers (born in the middle and at the end of the 20th century), yielding an ongoing phonetic differentiation where the voice onset time of lenis consonants is shortened while, at the same time, that of fortis consonants is lengthened. These results present an insight into the recent diachronic development of Austrian German and the changes in plosive production that are currently taking place.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

ISSN

0721-9067

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

79-101

UT code for WoS article

000538154300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85079672776