VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

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Vowels in Standard Austrian German
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where the tvalue
is positive, the pair is additionally in italics. The asterisk indicates that no ttests
have been performed. Legend as in Table 4.12.
F2 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 1794 1705 1800 1684 1764 1649 – – – –
Sp180 2110 1910 2152 1916 1940 1907 1762 1741 1988* 1821*
Sp082 – – 1738 1631 1660 1530 1662* 1300* 1500* –
Sp129 – – 1837 1792 1811 1767 1731* 1638* 1819* –
Sp126 – – 1661 1531 1617 1512 – 1399* 1510* 1618*
Sp127 – – 1588 1480 1597 1616 1325* 1402* 1309* 1404*
Table 4.16: Mean F2 values of /y/ and /Y/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value
to the left represents the vowel /y/, the value to the right the vowel /Y/. Statistically
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where the tvalue
is negative, the pair is additionally in italics. The asterisk indicates that no ttests
have been performed. Legend as in Table 4.12.
F3 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 2085 2099 2127 2106 2092 2112 – – – –
Sp180 2502 2570 2783 2657 2589 2693 2439 2583 2538* 2477*
Sp082 – – 2304 2351 2360 2394 2213* 2400* 2295* –
Sp129 – – 2327 2483 2453 2514 2375* 2230* 2466* –
Sp126 – – 2134 2139 2117 2158 – 2116* 2220* 2061*
Sp127 – – 2097 2328 2127 2258 2462* 2391* 2211* 2077*
Table 4.17: Mean F3 values of /y/ and /Y/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value
to the left represents the vowel /y/, the value to the right the vowel /Y/. Statistically
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where the tvalue
is positive, the pair is additionally in italics. The asterisk indicates that no ttests
have been performed. Legend as in Table 4.12.
The opposition between the pair /y/ – /Y/ is more endangered than the one between /i/ –
/ç/, especially because F3 plays a minor role (see Tables 4.15 – 4.17). The relevance of
F3 comes into play in less formal or weak positions, when the larynx is raised for the
unconstricted vowel, and consequently F3 is raised. This causes statistically significant
differences in the spontaneous speech of speaker sp180 and in the unstressed condition
of the sentence reading task of speaker sp127.