Revisiting areal and lexical diffusion: the case of Viennese Monophthongization in Austria’s traditional dialects

Vergeiner, Philip C.; Luttenberger, Jan; Bülow, Lars; Wallner, Dominik; Britain, David

doi:10.1515/ling-2021-0105

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“…Naturally, speakers of this linguistically dynamic region tend to have a comparatively broad repertoire of dialectal variants. While some typical Central Bavarian features like /l/-vocalization (see Section 1.3) have become considerably more common in the Northern parts of the region (Vollmann et al 2017), other features like the second Viennese Monophthongization seem to progress at a slower rate if at all (Vergeiner et al 2023). Note that the regional categorization of the Bavarian dialects as outlined above heavily relies on the assumption of stable rural base dialects, which they are likely not.…”

Section: German In East Austriamentioning

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The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects

Luttenberger,

Weihs,

Reinisch

2024

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper is concerned with the velarized lateral [ɫ] as a possible realization of the lateral phoneme /l/ in the rural Central Bavarian base dialects of German in Austria. So far, velarized laterals in Austrian German have mainly been described as a socially marked realization of /l/ in Vienna. However, descriptions of Austrian dialects mostly lack detailed acoustic analyses. Therefore, we analyzed the first two formants of alveolar laterals from dialect speakers in seventeen locations around Vienna that fall into the Central and South Central Bavarian dialect areas. Recordings were taken from the ‘German in Austria’ Corpus, from four speakers per location (two old, two young, each one male, one female), with thirty-two items per speaker with laterals in word-initial and twenty-two in word-final position. We asked whether the degree of velarization as measured by the difference between F2 and F1 (the smaller the more velarized) depends on this linguistic factor of position in the word – as has been shown for other Germanic languages – or social factors including the recording location’s distance from Vienna, age and gender of the speakers. Results showed that velarization was most frequently but not exclusively found in the Eastern region closest to Vienna (Central Bavarian dialects). Non-velarized and velarized laterals tended towards a complementary distribution in initial versus final word position and male speakers showed more velarization overall. Specifically, old speakers in locations close to Vienna tended towards more velarization in word-initial position compared to other regions, matching descriptions of Viennese dialect.

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Section: German In East Austriamentioning

confidence: 99%

The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects

Luttenberger,

Weihs,

Reinisch

2024

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Zum Schwund des Präteritumschwunds bei sein und wollen

Vergeiner,

Bülow

2024

Jahrbuch Für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte

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Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Variation und Wandel bei der Präteritum- und Perfektverwendung der Verben sein und wollen in den österreichischen Dialekten. Hierzu wird eine kombinierte real- und apparent-time-Studie durchgeführt, in der die österreichischen Wenkerdaten mit rezenten Dialektdaten aus zwei Altersgruppen verglichen werden. Sowohl die real- als auch die apparent-time-Vergleiche deuten dabei übereinstimmend auf eine Zunahme der Präteritumverwendung bei sein und wollen hin, wobei der Wandel bei sein schneller als bei wollen zu verlaufen scheint. Im Beitrag werden unter anderem die zeitlichen, räumlichen und sozialen Bedingungen dieses Wandels diskutiert.

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Geolinguistic structures of dialect phonology in the German-speaking Alpine region: A dialectometric approach using crowdsourcing data

Vergeiner,

Bülow

2023

Open Linguistics

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The Alpine region stands out in the German-speaking world for its well-preserved traditional dialects, which continue to play a significant role in daily life. However, the vast geographical range of the Alpine region and the limitations imposed by national and regional borders have hindered comprehensive investigations of the entire Alpine area. To overcome these obstacles, this study utilizes crowdsourcing data from the VerbaAlpina project to investigate phonological and morpho-phonological variation in the German-speaking Alpine region. Although the data were collected in a written form and with a focus on lexical variation, it is shown that the data contain detailed phonological information. By using multivariate dialectometric measurements (i.e. factor analysis [FA]) based on 19 (morpho-)phonological variables (comprising 8,582 tokens), the study explores the geolinguistic structures of the German dialects in the Alpine region. The results confirm, on a general level, the validity of the traditionally established dialect classification. However, the findings also reveal previously underrated border effects, in particular for Bavarian dialects along the German-Austrian border, which are argued to be the outcome of divergence processes. Hence, the study highlights the importance of cross-dialectal and cross-national perspectives in understanding dialect variation and emphasizes the value of crowdsourcing data for dialectological research.

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Revisiting areal and lexical diffusion: the case of Viennese Monophthongization in Austria’s traditional dialects

Cited by 3 publications

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The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects

The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects

Zum Schwund des Präteritumschwunds bei sein und wollen

Geolinguistic structures of dialect phonology in the German-speaking Alpine region: A dialectometric approach using crowdsourcing data

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