Interaction of phonetics, phonology, and sociophonology – illustrated by the vowels of Standard Austrian German
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2008/02/0044/000103Keywords:
phonetics-phonology interface, vowels, sound changeAbstract
Standard Austrian German, which distinguishes eight front vowels, exploits two front constriction locations for distinguishing these vowels: a pre-palatal and a palatal one. However, the pre-palatal location is acoustically unstable and, consequently, phonologically undesirable. The existence of a sound change which neutralizes the /i/ and /e/ vowels in a first step and shifts the constriction location of the remaining /i/ towards the palatal region in a second step is investigated.
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