VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

Sylvia Moosmüller
“Sternzeichen” (star sign) and the item “dieser” from the sequence “dieser Kopf” (this
head).
Figure 2.2: Spectrogram of the sequence “stern” from the item “Sternzeichen” (star sign) and
the item “dieser” from the sequence “dieser Kopf” (this head). Speaker sp129,
sentence reading task. Bottom panel: fundamental frequency. Next panel from
bottom: phonetic transcription. Third panel from bottom: waveform window.
Fourth panel from bottom: spectrogram window. Left upper panel: waveform zoom
window. Right upper panel: amplitude spectrum window.
Cursors mark the onset of the phonetic realization of the sequence “er” respectively 33 .
The waveform zoom window and the amplitude spectrum window refer to the left
cursor in the spectrogram window. In both cases, the trill is vocalized. The sequence
“er” from the item “Sternzeichen” is in a stressed position and is realized as a
diphthong; this is clearly indicated by the movement of the formants. The second
sequence “er” from “dieser” is in an unstressed position; therefore, the diphthong is
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The thick grey bar in the spectrogram window marks the border between “stern” and
“dieser”.
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