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The realisation of schwa plus underlying /r/ and /n/ in a local dialect of the Palatinate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Nicole Müller  and
Martin J. Ball
Nicole Müller
Affiliation:
Centre for Language and Communication Research, University of Wales Cardiff, P.O. Box 94, Cardiff CF1 3XB, Wales, e-mail: mueller@cf.ac.uk
Martin J. Ball
Affiliation:
School of Behavioural and Communication Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, N. Ireland, e-mail mj.ball@ulst.ac.uk
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Barry (1995a) presents data from Standard German which, among other things, illustrates the two different schwa vowels found in that variety. Barry's acoustic analysis demonstrates that orthographic final ‘-e’ has a regularly closer central vowel than orthographic final ‘-er’, and that the latter normally has no closing r-consonant. Barry, however, did not present data to examine which variety of schwa was found before orthographic ‘-r-’ when the ‘r’ is pronounced (e.g. when an inflectional affix is added to a final ‘-er’ form, as in ‘besser – bessere’).

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 89 - 102
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1996

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