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Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish
GILLES, Peter
2019 • In Calhoun, Sasha; Escudero, Paola; Tabain, Marijaet al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia
[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.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
GILLES, Peter ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish
Publication date :
2019
Event name :
19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Event place :
Melbourne, Australia
Event date :
from 4-08-2019 to 10-08-2019
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia
