Revisiting areal and lexical diffusion

The case of Viennese Monophthongization in Austria's traditional dialects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3987237
AutoresPhilip C Vergeiner (0000-0002-9044-0610, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, autor de correspondencia), Jan Luttenberger (0000-0003-0770-9576, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Acoustics Research Institute , Vienna , Austria), Lars Bülow (0000-0001-7365-8514, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Dominik Wallner (University of Salzburg), David Britain (0000-0003-4228-0242, University of Bern)
Año2023
Volumen61
Número4
Páginas915-957
Fecha de publicación2023-07-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2021-0105
OpenAlexW4379382694
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas46

This paper investigates the geographical and structural diffusion of "Viennese Monophthongization" (VM). By means of a new numerical measure to assess and compare formant movement in 18 lexical items, we provide evidence that VM is an ongoing, regular sound change transforming [aɛ̯] and [aɔ̯] gradually into [æː] and [ɒː]. Data are based on direct dialect recordings of 76 speakers in two age groups in 19 eastern and central Austrian rural locations. Results indicate that VM is diffusing from Vienna in a wave-like fashion. Even though VM is reported to have been established in other bigger cities for more than 30 years, the data show no evidence of diffusion from these cities. There are also other factors affecting the degree of formant movement: The phonetic-phonological environment (stress and the following consonant) explains most of the variance in the data, whereas no frequency effects could be found. Social identity, cultural space, and gender-related network structures are discussed as additional social factors

Acoustics · Consonant · Diffusion · Economic geography · Formant · Geography · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Variance (accounting) · Vowel · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology