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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 |
Editors | Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren |
Place of Publication | Canberra |
Pages | 25-28 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019 |
Abstract
The results reveal indeed a shift from consonantal to vocalic realization of /ʀ/ related to age. Significant interactions arise for education, gender, region and further factors. The highest amount of consonantal realizations appears in the speech of older male speakers living in the Centre of Luxembourg with a high education and good proficiency in both French and German, while most speakers of the young and middle generation realize /ʀ/ word-finally in most cases as a vowel.
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Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. ed. / Sasha Calhoun; Paola Escudero; Marija Tabain; Paul Warren. Canberra, 2019. p. 25-28.
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TY - GEN
T1 - The sociophonetics of /R/-vocalization in Luxembourgish
AU - Conrad, Francois
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The present paper analyses the distribution of consonantal and vocalic realizations of word-final /ʀ/ (e.g. Dier [di:χ] vs. [di:ə] ‘door’) in Luxembourgish, a West-Germanic language with strong contact with French and German. While the literature suspects an ongoing sound change with the consonantal realization decreasing with age, this investigation analyses /ʀ/-vocalization for the first time from a broader sociophonetic point of view. Focusing on language contact as a possible explanatory factor, it also includes gender, educational and regional factors.The results reveal indeed a shift from consonantal to vocalic realization of /ʀ/ related to age. Significant interactions arise for education, gender, region and further factors. The highest amount of consonantal realizations appears in the speech of older male speakers living in the Centre of Luxembourg with a high education and good proficiency in both French and German, while most speakers of the young and middle generation realize /ʀ/ word-finally in most cases as a vowel.
AB - The present paper analyses the distribution of consonantal and vocalic realizations of word-final /ʀ/ (e.g. Dier [di:χ] vs. [di:ə] ‘door’) in Luxembourgish, a West-Germanic language with strong contact with French and German. While the literature suspects an ongoing sound change with the consonantal realization decreasing with age, this investigation analyses /ʀ/-vocalization for the first time from a broader sociophonetic point of view. Focusing on language contact as a possible explanatory factor, it also includes gender, educational and regional factors.The results reveal indeed a shift from consonantal to vocalic realization of /ʀ/ related to age. Significant interactions arise for education, gender, region and further factors. The highest amount of consonantal realizations appears in the speech of older male speakers living in the Centre of Luxembourg with a high education and good proficiency in both French and German, while most speakers of the young and middle generation realize /ʀ/ word-finally in most cases as a vowel.
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-0-646-80069-1
SP - 25
EP - 28
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019
A2 - Calhoun, Sasha
A2 - Escudero, Paola
A2 - Tabain, Marija
A2 - Warren, Paul
CY - Canberra
T2 - 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019
Y2 - 5 August 2019 through 9 August 2019
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