Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects

Speech rhythm can be measured acoustically in terms of durational characteristics of consonantal and vocalic intervals. The present paper investigated how acoustically measurable rhythm varies across dialects of Swiss German. Rhythmic measurements (%V, �C, �V, varcoC, varcoV, rPVI-C, nPVIC, nPVI-V) were carried out on four sentences of six speakers from eight Swiss dialects. Results indicate that there are significant differences across the dialects in some rhythm measures but not in others and that dialects can be grouped according to rhythmic characteristics. Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-68557 Published Version Originally published at: Leemann, Adrian; Dellwo, Volker; Kolly, Marie-José; Schmid, Stephan (2012). Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects. In: 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Shanghai, 22 May 2012 25 May 2012, 607-610. Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects Adrian Leemann, Volker Dellwo, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid Phonetics Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland {adrian.leemann, marie-jose.kolly, schmidst}@pholab.uzh.ch, [email protected]