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Sylvia Moosmüller<br />

dominantly via F1). The rankings of the others show speaker-specific differences which<br />

can be summarized as follows:<br />

Speaker sp180: Paar > niedergelassen > Stadt, hatte > Deutschland, das<br />

Speaker sp129: Paar > niedergelassen > Stadt > Deutschland > das<br />

Speaker sp082: Paar, niedergelassen, Stadt > Deutschland > hatte > das<br />

Speaker sp012: Paar > niedergelassen, Stadt, hatte > Deutschland > das<br />

Speaker sp126: Paar > niedergelassen, Stadt > hatte > Deutschland > das<br />

Speaker sp127: Paar > niedergelassen, hatte, Stadt > Deutschland > das<br />

Except for the most stressed and the most unstressed position, these rankings differ<br />

from the initial hypothesis. The gradings of foregroundings and backgroundings play an<br />

important role and exert a substantial influence on the spectral shape of vowels as well.<br />

Figure 6.24 gives an overview of how the rhythmic patterning is performed by the<br />

speakers:<br />

Figure 6.24: Changes of formant frequencies of the vowel /A/ in dependence of stressconditioned<br />

foregrounding and backgrounding. The highest crossbar is most<br />

foregrounded, the lowest crossbar is least foregrounded. Each speaker is assigned a<br />

different colour.<br />

Figure 6.24 demonstrates that the respective spectral changes of the vowels evolve into<br />

a rhythmic pattern. However, there are some degrees of freedom with respect to how<br />

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