VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

Sylvia Moosmüller
Figure 4.28: Average spectrum of the vowel /A/ taken from the logatome “pabe”, speaker sp012.
Tables 4.33 – 4.35 give the statistical results of the pair-wise comparison of the lower
pharyngeal vowels.
F1 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 641 607 577 597 429 517 547 552 490 458
Sp180 919 827 669 652 434 538 665 639 522 502
Sp082 – – 623 621 414 518 626 632 477 536
Sp129 – – 682 641 502 511 665 626 495 514
Sp126 – – 544 520 368 423 521 486 420 428
Sp127 – – 665 647 414 476 615 594 429 415
Table 4.33: Mean F1 values of /A/ and /a/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value to
the left represents the vowel /A/, the value to the right the vowel /a/. 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.
F2 L L Rs Rs Rus Rus. Ss Ss Sus Sus
Sp012 1221 1244 1295 1279 1443 1399 1155 1196 1233 1319
Sp180 1508 1509 1599 1587 1656 1644 1544 1521 1597 1624
Sp082 – – 1437 1408 1541 1553 1402 1344 1471 1451
Sp129 – – 1402 1278 1387 1394 1358 1433 1487 1466
Sp126 – – 1278 1262 1308 1348 1249 1208 1253 1237
Sp127 – – 1330 1275 1325 1345 1231 1213 1311 1293
Table 4.34: Mean F2 values of /A/ and /a/ over all speaking tasks. Within each task, the value to
the left represents the vowel /A/, the value to the right the vowel /a/. Statistically
significant differences within each pair (p < 0.05) are marked in bold. Where the tvalue
is positive, the pair is additionally in italics. Legend as in Table 4.12.
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