VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

Sylvia Moosmüller
not necessary to change the degree of lip aperture during the /h/, lip aperture is simply
not modified in the vowel of “hatte”, and the decrease of stress is modelled via F2 and
F3 by all speakers except speaker sp012 (see Figure 6.23).
Three speakers (sp180, sp129, sp082) attribute the same degree of lip aperture as
in “Paar” to the vowel /A/ in “niedergelassen”. The other three lower F1 to about the
same degree as in “hatte”.
“Stadt” exerts the most salient speaker specific differences: Two speakers (sp180
and sp129) lower F1 substantially, even more than in “hatte” and “niedergelassen”. Two
further speakers (sp012 and sp126) lower F1 to about the same degree as in
“niedergelassen” and “hatte”, and two (sp082 and sp127) do not differentiate “Stadt”
from “Paar”.
Regarding the z-scores of F2 and F3 155 , which seem to work together, the results
on F1 are either enhanced or stay the same, but they are never reduced (see Figure
6.23).
The low F1 values of “das” are further enhanced by speaker sp180, sp129, sp082,
sp126, and sp127, who expose a rise of F2 and/or F3. Only speaker sp012 does not
further set off the unstressed position via F2 and F3; his F1 values are the lowest of all
speakers anyway. A further contribution of F2 and F3 does not seem to be necessary.
“Deutschland”, however, is only enhanced by speaker sp180 and sp082, so that, on the
whole, “Deutschland” is slightly more stressed than “das”. It has already been stated
that for the vowel /A/ in “hatte”, less deviation from the primary stressed position has
been observed with respect to F1 than hypothesized. This assimilation is balanced by a
higher deviation of F2 and F3 for all speakers except speaker sp012, and especially for
speaker sp082.
155 The mean of the z-score of F2 and the z-score of F3 has been calculated.
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