VOWELS IN STANDARD AUSTRIAN GERMAN - Acoustics ...

Sylvia Moosmüller
Figure 3.1: F1/F2 plot of the vowels of Standard Austrian German spoken by speaker sp012,
logatome reading task.
This chart looks quite symmetrical, it suggests, however, a neutralization of /i/ and /e/,
of /Y/ and /ë/, of /u/ and /o/ and of /a/ and /A/ on the F2 scale, and nearly a neutralization
of /i/ and /ç/ on the F1 scale. A similar observation can be made for speaker sp180, as
becomes evident from Figure 3.2:
Figure 3.2: F1/F2 plot of the vowels of Standard Austrian German spoken by speaker sp180,
logatome reading task.
Moreover, in the upper part of the vowel space, the vowels are located quite closely
together on the F1 scale. Similar results have been obtained for Danish (Ejstrup &
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