Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish

Gilles, Peter

Reference : Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish


	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Arts & humanities : Languages & linguistics
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39502

Title :	Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Gilles, Peter [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
Publication date :	2019
Main document title :	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia
Editor :	Calhoun, Sasha
	Escudero, Paola
	Tabain, Marija
	Warren, Paul
Pages :	1590-1594
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
ISBN :	978-0-646-80069-1
City :	Melbourne
Country :	Australia
Event name :	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Event date :	from 4-08-2019 to 10-08-2019
Event place (city) :	Melbourne
Event country :	Australia
Keywords :	[en] crowd-sourcing ; Luxembourgish ; phonetics
Abstract :	[en] Similar to neighbouring German varieties, the recent language history of Luxembourgish is subject to an ongoing merger of the alveolopalatal fricative [ɕ] (deriving from the palatal fricative [ç]) and the postalveolar fricative [ʃ], leading progressively to the collapse, for example, of the minimal pair frech [fʀæɕ] 'cheeky, impertinent' and Fräsch [fʀæʃ] 'frog'. The present study will draw on a large dataset— which has been recorded using an innovative smartphone application—consisting of fricative realisations of more than 1,300 speakers. In an acoustic analysis, various parameters of the two fricatives will be studied (Centre of Gravity, spectral moments, Euclidian distance, DCT coefficients) and correlated with the speaker’s age. The results show that the merger is acoustically manifest for nearly all age groups. Only the oldest speakers keep the two fricatives distinct.
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39502

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