VOT or quantity: What matters more for the voicing contrast in German regional varieties? Results from apparent-time analyses

Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Felicitas KleberAbstractStandard German distinguishes voiced (short-lag) and voiceless (long-lag) stops in domain-initial and -medial position with VOT being the most important cue. This phonemic distinction has been neutralized in many dialects but the merger appears to have been reversed in the corresponding regional accents probably due to the increasing influence of the standard language. This apparent-time study investigates the emerging importance of VOT and VCratio (a combined measure of proportional vowel and closure duration) in Bavarian and Saxon, two German regional varieties prone to reverse the merger. To this end we analyzed acoustically minimal pairs with stops in medial and initial position and...

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