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Date: 02-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Vowel Space Paradox: van der Harst


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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:51:39
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Vowel Space Paradox: van der Harst

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Title: The Vowel Space Paradox 
Subtitle: A Sociophonetic Study on Dutch. 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Sander van der Harst

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930560 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 


Abstract:

In both phonetics and sociolinguistics, it has been widely observed that
speech style is situation dependent. Both fields have studied this topic 
autonomously. When the results of sociolinguistic studies and phonetic 
studies on stylistic vowel variation are combined, a paradox (referred to as 
'the Vowel Space Paradox) arises. On the one hand, phonetic studies have 
found that more informal speech yields a smaller vowel space in comparison 
with formal speech, i.e. vowels in the vowel space are reduced in more 
informal speech, as compared to their realization in formal speech. On the 
other hand, sociolinguistic studies have repeatedly shown that some vowels 
show more sociolinguistically conditioned variation in less formal speech. 
Thus, individual vowels can cover a larger area in this smaller vowel space, 
as compared to these vowels in formal speech. At the same time, it has been 
shown that in more informal speech contrasts between vowels remain largely 
intact, despite the smaller overall vowel space and the larger individual vowel 
spaces. The current dissertation explains and solves this paradox by 
investigating the sociogeographic variation in read and spontaneous speech 
of speakers of Standard Dutch. In addition to explaining the paradox, this 
study gives experimentally based recommendations on methodological 
issues as formant measurements,optimal temporal representations and 
normalization of vowels. Therefore, this dissertation is of interest to anyone 
who studies vowel variation. Finally, it offers a description of sociogeographic 
variation in the pronunciation of Standard Dutch vowels. 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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