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![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Taal en Tongval (in press) Like many other small languages in Europe, Luxembourgish is embedded in a specific multilingual situation, which is leading to intricate patterns of language variation. While language contact - here: with ... [more ▼] Like many other small languages in Europe, Luxembourgish is embedded in a specific multilingual situation, which is leading to intricate patterns of language variation. While language contact - here: with German and French - is clearly one of the main factors in language variation, Luxembourgish is furthermore characterized by regional variation within the country and internal changes, both related to the mainly spoken status of Luxembourgish and ongoing language standardization. In order to address language variation from a broad perspective, in this article a crowd-sourcing approach for data collection and several case studies for linguistic variables are going to be presented. For data collection a novel smartphone application has been developed which allows to elicit variable linguistic phenomena in a coherent way and which is at the same time easy to use for the participants. This technique allowed to collect audio speech data for over 3700 speakers, which permits to analyze variation on the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical level on a hitherto unachieved quantitative level. The aims of this long-term project are thus to document spoken Luxembourgish and its variation and to develop a new kind of linguistic atlas, in which variation is not only illustrated as a geographical phenomenon but further correlated with several social and demographic factors. Data analyses will then provide a comprehensive picture of language variation and general trends in Luxembourgish. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 41 (4 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Kürschner, Sebastian; Dammel, Antje (Eds.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics (2023) This article provides an overview of the structure of the Luxembourgish language, the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which has developed from a Moselle Franconian dialect to an Ausbau ... [more ▼] This article provides an overview of the structure of the Luxembourgish language, the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which has developed from a Moselle Franconian dialect to an Ausbau language in the course of the 20th century. In the early 21st century, Luxembourgish serves several functions, mainly as a multifunctional spoken variety but also as a written language, which has acquired a medium level of language standardization. Because of the embedding into a complex multilingual situation with German and French, Luxembourgish is characterized by a high degree of language contact. As a Germanic language, Luxembourgish has developed its distinct grammatical features. In this article, the main aspects of phonetics and phonology (vowels, consonants, prosody, word stress), morphology (inflection of nouns, adjectives, articles and pronouns, partitive structures, prepositions, verbal system), and syntactic characteristics (complementizer agreement, word order in verbal clusters) are discussed. The lexicon is influenced to a certain degree by loanwords from French. Regarding language variation and change, recent surveys show that Luxembourgish is undergoing major changes affecting phonetics and phonology (reduction of regional pronunciations), the grammatical system (plural of nouns), and, especially, the lexical level (decrease of loans from French, increase of loans from German). [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 1094 (61 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() ![]() ![]() in IEEE, Spoken Language Technology (Ed.) Proceedings - 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) (2023) We present a first system for automatic speech recognition (ASR) for the low-resource language Luxembourgish. By applying transfer-learning, we were able to fine-tune Meta’s wav2vec2-xls-r-300m checkpoint ... [more ▼] We present a first system for automatic speech recognition (ASR) for the low-resource language Luxembourgish. By applying transfer-learning, we were able to fine-tune Meta’s wav2vec2-xls-r-300m checkpoint with 35 hours of labeled Luxembourgish speech data. The best word error rate received lies at 14.47. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 47 (7 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Dialectologia (2022), Special Volume X: DIACLEU. An introduction to dialect classifications in Europe This paper presents the dialect classifications for Luxembourgish. The first dialectological studies regarded the Luxembourgish dialect(s) as embedded into a larger ‘German’ spectrum of varieties, but ... [more ▼] This paper presents the dialect classifications for Luxembourgish. The first dialectological studies regarded the Luxembourgish dialect(s) as embedded into a larger ‘German’ spectrum of varieties, but from the 1960s onwards the state border in the east with Germany was conceptualized more and more also as a linguistic border. The first classification of Luxembourgish by Hardt (1848), with four dialect groups, was rather impressionistic. The classifications from the 20th century are based on survey data. The first two are in the framework of spatial dialectology, the third one is a dialectometric study. Bach (1933) did not present subdivisions, but on the basis of the isogloss maps at least three groups show up. Bruch (1954) identified four dialect regions. Schiltz’s (1997) quantitative analysis merges two of these regions. There are no classifications in the field of perceptual dialectology. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 41 (6 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Merten, Marie-Luis; Wallmeier, Nadine; Langhanke, Robert (Eds.) Regionales Sprechen und Schreiben (2022) Detailed reference viewed: 159 (5 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() Poster (2021) Detailed reference viewed: 47 (2 UL)![]() Entringer, Nathalie ![]() ![]() ![]() in Linguistics Vanguard (2021), 7(s1), The mobile app Schnëssen is intended to establish a state-of-the-art digital platform to collect data on the present-day language situation of Luxembourgish by means of crowd-sourcing and to document and ... [more ▼] The mobile app Schnëssen is intended to establish a state-of-the-art digital platform to collect data on the present-day language situation of Luxembourgish by means of crowd-sourcing and to document and present results to a broader public. Users can participate in a large set of audio recordings tasks and in sociolinguistic surveys. By presenting all audio recordings via an interactive map, participants can explore the language variation of their language. In the first year of data collection, around 210.000 recordings could be collected for numerous variation phenomena from all linguistic levels and over 2800 sociolinguistic questionnaires have been filled out. The app allowed us to compile thus the largest systematic spoken language corpus of Luxembourgish. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 321 (40 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Ziegler, Evelyn; Marten, Heiko F. (Eds.) Linguistic Landscapes im deutschsprachigen Kontext (2021) Taking a more quantitative approach in linguistic landscape research, we explore recent techniques of automatic information extraction from images. The recently released Cloud Vision API by Google offers ... [more ▼] Taking a more quantitative approach in linguistic landscape research, we explore recent techniques of automatic information extraction from images. The recently released Cloud Vision API by Google offers new perspectives on the software-assisted processing and classification of pictures. A software interface makes it possible to extract various kinds of information from pictures automatically, among them the written text, certain labels to describe the picture (e.g. road sign, shop sign, prohibition sign) or the colours used in the picture. Applying this new technique to large-scale image data collections will not only enhance analysis but may also offer hitherto unrecognized structures. The data comes from a large-scale investigation of the Ruhr Metropolis in Germany, where 25,504 photos have been taken to document the linguistic landscape of selected neighbourhoods in four cities (Ziegler et al. 2018). This data has been annotated manually in various categories to analyze the occurrence, form and function of visual multilingualism. These pictures are then automatically processed by the Cloud Vision API and the results compared to the manual annotation. It will be shown that the quality of the image recognition greatly depends on the quality of the picture. The textual information extracted from the pictures will be stored in a database. Rather than presenting results on the linguistic landscape, this chapter is predominantly concerned with practical tools to facilitate large-scale linguistic landscape research. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 127 (0 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie (2020), 139 Schon im Jahre 2004 führte Claudine Moulin aus: „Unter vielen Gesichtspunkten kann man heute behaupten, dass es nicht übertrieben ist, von einem eigenständigen Fach, der luxemburgischen Philologie, zu ... [more ▼] Schon im Jahre 2004 führte Claudine Moulin aus: „Unter vielen Gesichtspunkten kann man heute behaupten, dass es nicht übertrieben ist, von einem eigenständigen Fach, der luxemburgischen Philologie, zu reden.“ Um die Genese dieser wissenschaftlichen Disziplin, um ihr Forschungsfeld, ihre Akteure und Institutionen in ihren jeweiligen gesellschafts- und wissenschaftshistorischen Einbettungen soll es im Folgenden gehen. Zunächst soll ein komprimierter Abriss über den Wandel der Existenzform des Luxemburgischen aus einem moselfränkischen Dialekt hin zu einer germanischen Einzel- und Nationalsprache gegeben werden. Danach folgt eine erste wissenschaftshistorische Darstellung der Beschäftigung mit dem Luxemburgischen als Studienobjekt einer Sprachwissenschaft. Beginnend im 19. Jh., lassen sich hier m.E. drei wissenschaftshistorische Phasen annehmen, die sich in Zielsetzung, Professionalisierung und Institutionalisierung unterscheiden und immer in Relation zur linguistischen und soziolinguistischen Entwicklung der Varietät ‚Luxemburgisch‘ betrachtet werden müssen. Abschließend sollen diese wissenschaftshistorischen Etappen in Bezug auf das Konzept einer Nationalphilologie diskutiert werden. Die folgende Darstellung fokussiert fast ausschließlich auf die Sprachwissenschaft. Diese müsste selbstverständlich um eine analoge Untersuchung zur Literaturwissenschaft ergänzt werden. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 88 (3 UL)![]() ; Gilles, Peter ![]() in Beiträge zur Namenforschung (2020), 55(2-3), 127-167 Für die großflächige, deutschlandweite Kartierung und Analyse der Familiennamen (FamilienN, im Folgenden steht „N“ für Name(n)) stellt bis heute die nach Postleitzahlen gegliederte Datenbank der ... [more ▼] Für die großflächige, deutschlandweite Kartierung und Analyse der Familiennamen (FamilienN, im Folgenden steht „N“ für Name(n)) stellt bis heute die nach Postleitzahlen gegliederte Datenbank der Telefonanschlüsse, wie sie im Telefonbuch der Deutschen Telekom von 2005 verzeichnet sind die Datenbasis des Projekts 'Deutscher Familiennamenatlas' dar. Im Folgenden werden wir eine neue umfangreiche Datenbasis der deutschen FamilienN vorstellen, die die bisherige um eine historische Dimension erweitern wird. Es handelt sich um die Datenbank der Verlustlisten der Kriegsteilnehmer des Ersten Weltkriegs, die mit ihren rund 7,7 Millionen Namenträgern aus allen Gebieten des damaligen Deutschen Reichs die gesamte FamilienN-Landschaft des ausgehenden 19. Jh. umfassen. Mit dieser neuen Datenbasis wird es möglich sein, die heutige FamilienN-Landschaft mit derjenigen vor 130 Jahren zu vergleichen und damit zum ersten Mal die regionale Festigkeit bzw. Veränderung der FamilienN zu erforschen. Unberührt von den großen europäischen Migrationswellen des 20. Jh. und erst am Beginn der durch die Industrialisierung beschleunigten Urbanisierung, repräsentieren die Verlustlisten die Namenverteilung einer im Vergleich zu heute deutlich weniger mobilen, überwiegend ländlichen Gesellschaft. Über diese neue Kartierungsgrundlage hinaus leisten die Verlustlisten wertvolle Dienste bei der Etymologisierung, bei sprachgeschichtlichen, dialektologischen oder graphematischen Fragestellungen sowie für die Migrationsforschung. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 167 (8 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Calhoun, Sasha; Escudero, Paola; Tabain, Marija (Eds.) et al Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia (2019) 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 ... [more ▼] 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. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 183 (10 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Herrgen, Joachim; Schmidt, Jürgen-Erich (Eds.) Language and Space - An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Vol. 4 Deutsch (2019) Der Beitrag behandelt die komplexe Sprachensituation Luxemburgs, mit Fokus auf den germanischen Varietäten, i.e. Deutsch und Luxemburgisch, im Hinblick auf Überdachung und ihre sprachgeschichtlichen ... [more ▼] Der Beitrag behandelt die komplexe Sprachensituation Luxemburgs, mit Fokus auf den germanischen Varietäten, i.e. Deutsch und Luxemburgisch, im Hinblick auf Überdachung und ihre sprachgeschichtlichen Verschiebungen. In dieser varietätenlinguistischen Perspektive liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der äußeren Sprachgeschichte; Aspekte der inneren Sprachgeschichte werden aus Platzgründen lediglich anhand ausgewählter Beispiele thematisiert. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 382 (15 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (2019), 47(2), 385-407 In this article we outline how corpus-based studies can contribute to the methodology of linguistic landscape research. Linguistic-landscape research can be roughly understood as the “study of writing on ... [more ▼] In this article we outline how corpus-based studies can contribute to the methodology of linguistic landscape research. Linguistic-landscape research can be roughly understood as the “study of writing on display in the public sphere” (Coulmas 2009: 14). From a historical perspective, we investigate the emergence and use of the public sphere as a place of attention for official top-down communication in Luxembourg. Based on a large corpus of public announcements of the municipality of the city of Luxembourg, the history of public top-down communication is analysed by taking into account both sociolinguistic and linguistic factors. The analysis reveals that the public announcements are increasingly typographically and linguistically adapted to the conditions of public perception and self-reading in the course of time – whereby initially the multimodal embedding of the older presentation form is maintained. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 203 (10 UL)![]() Gierschek, Daniela ![]() ![]() ![]() Presentation (2019) Detailed reference viewed: 136 (22 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() ![]() in Zeitschrift für Wortbildung (2018), 1/2018 Detailed reference viewed: 204 (15 UL)![]() Entringer, Nathalie ![]() ![]() ![]() Software (2018) Detailed reference viewed: 230 (30 UL)![]() ; Gilles, Peter ![]() ![]() Book published by Steiner (2017) Detailed reference viewed: 146 (8 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() ![]() Book published by De Gruyter (2016) Erstmals werden in dieser Publikation die Familiennamen des heutigen Luxemburgs aus sprachhistorischer Perspektive analysiert und systematisiert. Die 2500 häufigsten Familiennamen werden basierend auf ... [more ▼] Erstmals werden in dieser Publikation die Familiennamen des heutigen Luxemburgs aus sprachhistorischer Perspektive analysiert und systematisiert. Die 2500 häufigsten Familiennamen werden basierend auf synchronen und diachronen Quellen sorgfältig hinsichtlich Namentyp, Etymologie, sprachhistorischer Entwicklung und geographischer Verbreitung untersucht. Die Beschreibung der Verbreitung ist nicht auf Luxemburg eingeschränkt, sondern berücksichtigt auch die Grenzregionen mit Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien und den Niederlanden, um historische Gemeinsamkeiten und Migrationen im Raum zwischen Maas und Rhein herauszustellen. Berücksichtigung findet folglich auch der Sprachkontakt zwischen Germania und Romania. Durch ein Verweissystem werden strukturell zusammengehörige Namen (etwa Varianten, Zusammensetzungen oder Ableitungen) miteinander verbunden, sodass die Charakteristiken der Luxemburger Familiennamenlandschaft deutlich wird. Eine ausführliche Einleitung sowie mehrere Anhänge runden dieses Nachschlagewerk ab. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 507 (31 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Grandi, Nicola; Kortvelyessy, Livia (Eds.) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (2015) Detailed reference viewed: 505 (23 UL)![]() Gilles, Peter ![]() in Davies, Wini; Ziegler, Evelyn (Eds.) Macro and micro language planning (2015) Detailed reference viewed: 397 (46 UL) |
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