Open AccessCONTINUOUS DIFFUSION OF AUSTRIAN MODEL GERMAN FRONT VOWELS: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
S. Ramanuj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current research journal of philological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2767-3758
DOI - 10.37547/philological-crjps-02-05-05
Subject(s) - german , consolidation (business) , vowel , linguistics , front (military) , perspective (graphical) , sociology , art , geography , philosophy , visual arts , economics , accounting , meteorology
In Austrian Model German ASG , the vowels in the words Beeren and Bärenare ordinarily respected to be consolidated. Some acoustic investigations on ASG additionally recommend a consolidation between the vowels as in Maitland Mitteand even between the BEEREN/BÄREN consolidation and the MIETE vowel. This paper re-examines these consolidations from a sociolinguistic perspective and shows that more established speakers will in general union the vowels more than more youthful speakers. This focuses towards a continuous scattering or 'unmerger' and we contend that this is an aftereffect of convenience toward Model German as it is articulated in Germany.