VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

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Vowels in Standard Austrian German
F3 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 2525 2125 2107 1988 2124 2042 2144 2094 2176 2133
Sp180 2649 2748 2675 2575 2651 2615 2761 2588 2642 2592
Sp082 – – 2438 2479 2483 2448 2471 2431 2515 2538
Sp129 – – 2674 2361 2550 2451 2459 2370 2503 2270
Sp126 – – 2244 1938 2147 2114 2228 2110 2244 2080
Sp127 – – 2454 2420 2338 2277 2481 2330 2496 2374
Table 4.32: Mean F3 values of /o/ and /O/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value to
the left represents the vowel /o/, the value to the right the vowel /O/. Statistically
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where the tvalue
is negative, the pair is additionally in italics. Legend as in Table 4.12.
In reading logatomes, both speakers discern the pair for F1 and F2. F3 is only used by
speaker sp012. The same picture emerges for the stressed position in the sentence
reading task; all speakers discern the pair for F1 and F2, but only three use F3 as well.
Figure 4.26 summarizes the results of the statistical analysis:
Figure 4.26: Results of the one-tailed t-tests for the vowel pair /o/ – /O/. For each formant and
each speaking task, statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are indicated by
crossbeams. Where no differences occur for a given formant, the space is left
blank. Legend as in Table 4.12.