VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

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Vowels in Standard Austrian German
/A/ 0.20 0.15 0.25 0.21 0.29 0.29
/i/ -0.44 0.14 -0.01 -0.06 -0.13 -0.21
/ç/ -0.09 0.41 0.00 -0.06 0.31 0.12
/y/ -0.21 -0.09 0.72 -0.08 -0.62 -0.08
/Y/ – 0.23 – – – 0.67
/e/ 0.21 0.33 0.55 -0.09 0.28 0.47
/E/ 0.17 0.18 0.48 0.13 0.52 0.25
/u/ -0.06 -0.02 0.60 -0.22 -0.13 0.11
/ï/ 0.18 0.02 0.86 0.30 0.07 -0.07
/o/ -0.24 0.35 0.06 -0.42 0.78 -0.07
/O/ 0.38 0.23 0.14 -0.27 0.02 0.29
/A/ 0.25 0.16 0.42 0.41 0.30 0.29
Table 6.9: r for duration (number of periods)/F1 in stressed position (first six rows) and in
unstressed position (last six rows), broken for all speakers, sentence reading task,
statistically significant results (p ≤ 0.05) are in bold. Where statistically significant
r-values have the opposite sign to the hypothetical result, the value is additionally
in italics.
r: NoP/F2 Sp180 Sp129 Sp082 Sp012 Sp126 Sp127
/i/ -0.10 0.11 0.50 0.45 0.65 0.57
/ç/ 0.04 -0.01 0.24 0.16 0.19 0.04
/y/ -0.02 -0.45 0.49 0.17 0.26 0.22
/Y/ -0.17 -0.02 -0.21 0.76 0.69 0.70
/e/ 0.34 0.53 0.23 0.31 0.57 0.38
/E/ 0.06 0.04 -0.02 -0.03 -0.02 0.35
/ë/ -0.73 -0.14 -0.61 -0.43 -0.45 0.43
/ê/ -0.32 0.76 0.13 -0.22 0.35 0.27
/u/ -0.43 -0.31 -0.67 -0.25 -0.26 -0.04
/ï/ -0.07 -0.28 0.33 0.28 0.49 -0.37
/o/ -0.20 -0.03 0.19 -0.11 -0.04 0.16
/O/ -0.21 -0.05 -0.57 -0.23 -0.01 -0.09
/A/ 0.19 0.45 -0.05 -0.02 0.09 0.27
/i/ 0.51 -0.04 0.05 0.19 0.01 -0.07
/ç/ -0.07 0.08 -0.13 -0.10 -0.12 0.14
/y/ 0.36 -0.21 0.43 0.57 0.70 0.48
/Y/ – 0.82 – – – -0.10
/e/ -0.17 -0.10 -0.16 0.25 0.03 -0.06
/E/ -0.07 0.10 0.02 0.07 0.10 0.09
/u/ -0.18 -0.27 0.37 -0.03 -0.17 -0.02
/ï/ 0.23 -0.32 0.38 -0.93 0.09 0.01