VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

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Vowels in Standard Austrian German
Figure 4.23: Average spectrum of the vowel /ï/ taken from the logatome “pubbe”, speaker
sp012.
However, statistical results offer no clear picture, and it might well be the case that
articulatory configurations are speaker-dependent (see Tables 4.27 – 4.29).
F1 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 279 357 313 345 334 349 321* 402* 351* 364*
Sp180 262 311 315 346 398 371 347 312 367 371
Sp082 – – 372 429 400 402 384* 359* 409 441
Sp129 – – 343 378 407 405 366 380 394 413
Sp126 – – 308 330 329 323 337 336 340 333
Sp127 – – 301 351 329 350 329 333 341 336
Table 4.27: Mean F1 values of /u/ and /ï/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value to
the left represents the vowel /u/, the value to the right the vowel /ï/. 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.
F2 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 626 826 654 723 1065 1227 1020* 1124* 1137* 1281*
Sp180 887 969 953 1060 1437 1247 1162 1096 1393 1199
Sp082 – – 867 1046 1314 1293 975* 1119* 1507 998
Sp129 – – 747 752 1098 880 836 837 1202 1038
Sp126 – – 768 916 1140 1183 930 779 1179 1066
Sp127 – – 814 869 1240 1221 922 814 1107 1112
Table 4.28: Mean F2 values of /u/ and /ï/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value to
the left represents the vowel /u/, the value to the right the vowel /ï/. Statistically
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where a t-