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TY - GEN
T1 - ‘Chend’ met – ‘Kind’ mit
T2 - using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German
AU - Zihlmann, Urban
AU - Leemann, Adrian
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Speakers from the canton of Lucerne are infamous for spelling Middle High German (MHG) as when communicating in written Swiss German, e.g. Kind (‘child’) as . This phenomenon has been examined only impressionistically by phoneticians. This study provides a first account of this peculiarity of Lucerne Swiss German spellers: an analysis of normalised formant frequencies of two underlyingly MHG vowels from 200+ speakers of the Dialäkt Äpp corpus revealed that the Lucerne allophone is in reality [e] for most of the localities examined, which may explain why in vernacular writing, spellers prefer over . Homophony due to this peculiarity can cause misunderstandings in written and oral communication, and possibly has repercussions on the reading and writing development of Lucerne students.
AB - Speakers from the canton of Lucerne are infamous for spelling Middle High German (MHG) as when communicating in written Swiss German, e.g. Kind (‘child’) as . This phenomenon has been examined only impressionistically by phoneticians. This study provides a first account of this peculiarity of Lucerne Swiss German spellers: an analysis of normalised formant frequencies of two underlyingly MHG vowels from 200+ speakers of the Dialäkt Äpp corpus revealed that the Lucerne allophone is in reality [e] for most of the localities examined, which may explain why in vernacular writing, spellers prefer over . Homophony due to this peculiarity can cause misunderstandings in written and oral communication, and possibly has repercussions on the reading and writing development of Lucerne students.
KW - dialectology
KW - formants
KW - regional variation
KW - crowdsourcing
KW - Swiss German
KW - iOS
KW - Lucerne German
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SP - 236
EP - 240
BT - Phonetik und Phonologie
A2 - Draxler, Christoph
A2 - Kleber, Felicitas
ER -