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Im Saterland wird neben der Regionalsprache Niederdeutsch eine der am stärksten bedrohten Minderheitensprachen Europas, das Saterfriesische (Seeltersk), gesprochen. Spätestens seit Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges stehen beide Sprachen nicht mehr nur miteinander, sondern auch mit dem nördlichen Standarddeutsch in engem Kontakt. Die meisten älteren Mutt...
Dating conversations are especially influenced by the interlocutors’ perceived attractiveness. As visual attractiveness determines the course and nature of the interaction, the perceived overall quality of the conversation may also be influenced by the perceived attractiveness and simultaneously also affect the further development of the conversati...
Prosodic entrainment describes the phenome-non of two interlocutors becoming more similar during the interaction. Several studies suggest that entrainment can reflect social relationships (cf. Giles et al. 1991, Lubold & Pon-Barry 2014). A recent study found that the degree of prosodic entrainment can be affected by an in-terlocutor’s perceived vis...
Saterland Frisian is spoken in Saterland in northwest Germany.
This language has a complete set of close short tense vowels: /i y u/.
Together with the short lax vowels /ɪ ʏ ʊ/ and the long tense vowels /iː yː uː/ they constitute series of phonemes that differ by length and/or tenseness. We investigated which acoustic cues distinguish the sounds wi...
The present study compares the acoustic realization of Saterland Frisian, Low German, and High German vowels by trilingual speakers in the Saterland. The Saterland is a rural municipality in northwestern Germany. It offers the unique opportunity to study trilingualism with languages that differ both by their vowel inventories and by external factor...
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Studies on vowel productions of speakers from bilingual communities report not only interactions between the first and second language, but also monolingual-like realizations. The present study expands a prior acoustic investigation of Saterland trilinguals by studying the substrate effect of Saterland Frisian and Low German on...
Previous investigations on Saterland Frisian report a large vowel inventory, including up to 20 monophthongs and 16 diphthongs in stressed position. Conducting a cross-dialectal acoustic study on Saterland Frisian vowels in Ramsloh, Scharrel, and Strücklingen, the objective is to provide a phonetic description of vowel category realization and to i...
Acoustic parameters of the speech signal such as overall mean pitch, pitch range or variability of pitch can influence how listeners evaluate attractiveness as well as likability. This study asks two questions: Firstly, does the perception of the interlocutor's attractiveness or likability in turn influence the speaker's pitch behavior as well? Sec...
Studies on vowel productions of speakers from bilingual communities report L1-L2 interactions but also monolingual-like realizations ([1], [2], [3]). Where the languages differed in communicative range and size of the speech community, monolingual-like productions of early bilinguals were found in the languages with the wider communicative range an...
Für eine Vielzahl von Sprachen wurde gezeigt, dass eine dynamische f0-Kontur zu einer Verlängerung der wahrgenommenen Vokaldauer beiträgt und Hörer von diesem Parameter bei der Disambiguierung uneindeutiger Fälle Gebrauch machen. In der vorliegenden Studie wird der perzeptuelle Effekt am Beispiel trilingualer Saterfriesen untersucht, da die Ergebni...
Saterland Frisian is spoken in three neighboring villages in NorthWest Germany, Strücklingen, Scharrel, and Ramsloh. In this study, we examine whether there is regional variation between the vowel systems of the three varieties. Speakers were instructed to read monophthongs and diphthongs in a neutral /hVt/ frame. Acoustic measurements included vow...
This study investigates the vowel space of trilingual speakers of Saterland Frisian, Low German, and High German. The three vowel systems show differences in the number of distinct categories but share the majority of vowel qualities. To examine whether the size of the vowel space correlates positively with the number of vowel categories and whethe...
This study investigates the vowel space of trilingual speakers of Saterland Frisian, Low German, and High German. The three vowel systems show differences in the number of distinct categories but share the majority of vowel qualities. To examine whether the size of the vowel space correlates positively with the number of vowel categories and whethe...
Saterland Frisian is spoken in three neighboring villages in North-West Germany, Strücklingen, Scharrel, and Ramsloh. In this study, we examine whether there is regional variation between the vowel systems of the three varieties. Speakers were instructed to read monophthongs and diphthongs in a neutral /hVt/ frame. Acoustic measurements included vo...
Saterland Frisian has a complete set of closed short tense vowels. Together with the long tense vowels and the short lax vowels they constitute series of phonemes that differ by length and/or tenseness. We examined the cues that distinguish the front unrounded and the back rounded series of short lax and short and long tense vowels in triplets by e...
