This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The volume is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals, suprasegmentals, articulation in spoken and sign language, perception, phonology, crowdsourcing phonetic data, second language speech, and arts (with inevitable overlap between these areas).
Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has, until today, not been examined systematically. The aim of this study is to analyze natural Swiss German fundamental frequency behavior according to linguistic, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic variables, using statistical tests against the backdrop of detecting dialect-specific patterns as well as cross-dialectal differences. The intonation analyses were conducted with the mathematically-formulated Command-Response model. This is the first large-scale study that applies this framework on a large corpus of natural, dialectal speech. This contribution provides a holistic account of the truly multilayered features of natural speech intonation and brings to light detailed underlying patterns of Swiss German dialectal fundamental frequency behavior. The book is mainly targeted at linguists, speech scientists, as well as dialectologists.
So bunt kann sprachliche Vielfalt sein: ein kurzweiliger Ausflug in das weite Reich regionaler Wortschätze. Wer in München, Berlin oder Zürich versucht, beim Bäcker Semmeln, Schrippen oder Weckle zu bestellen, der weiß, dass Sprache nicht immer ein verbindendes Element ist. Im schlimmsten Fall geht er leer aus. Denn jede Region im deutschsprachigen Raum hat ihre eigene Art, den Dingen einen Namen zu geben. Wo sagt man zu gebratenen Klößen aus Hackfleisch – pardon: Faschiertem – Frikadelle, wo Fleischlaiberl und wo Hacktätschli? Antworten darauf und warum der eine nicht so babbelt wie der andere schwätzt, finden Sie in diesem Buch: witzig erklärt und illustriert mit schönen Karten.
