Competing norms of standard pronunciation. Phonetic analyses on the -ig-variation in Austria

Autor(en)

Manuela Lanwermeyer, Johanna Fanta-Jende, Alexandra Lenz, Katharina Korecky-Kröll

Abstrakt

This paper focuses on phonetic variation within the standard German language register of Austria. While the norm status and a high socio-symbolic value are attributed to certain lexical variants of standard language in Austria, the norm and usage status of characteristic phonetic properties remain unclear, due to lack of empirical analyses. By investigating the relation between standard language norms and "standard usage" (Gebrauchsstandard) in Austria, our study aims to close this research gap by using the example of unstressed -ig. The analyses are based on data gathered from 52 speakers from two generations, covering all Austrian dialect regions. Elicitation settings varied from strongly standardized tasks with a graphic or visual stimulus (reading aloud tasks, picture naming tasks) to translation tasks (translation from dialect into standard) with oral stimuli. The results demonstrate that although -ig is predominantly pronounced like [Ik], (socio-)linguistic factors as phonetic context, part of speech, setting, gender and regional background influence the -ig-variation. In total, the data suggest that German speaking Austrians are situated in a conflict between transnationally diverging norms and intra-nationally varying model speakers of German.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Germanistik

Journal

Dialectologica et Geolinguistica

Band

27

Seiten

143-175

Anzahl der Seiten

33

ISSN

0942-4040

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/dialect-2019-0008

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602038 Phonetik, 602014 Germanistik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c4c4681c-36ac-4a0e-9f6f-b88f7c7577ed