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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 :
Langues & linguistique
Auteur, co-auteur :
GILLES, Peter ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Using crowd-sourced data to analyse the ongoing merger of [ɕ] and [ʃ] in Luxembourgish
Date de publication/diffusion :
2019
Nom de la manifestation :
19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Lieu de la manifestation :
Melbourne, Australie
Date de la manifestation :
from 4-08-2019 to 10-08-2019
Manifestation à portée :
International
Titre de l'ouvrage principal :
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia
