Raising of /a/ in Copenhagen Danish: perceptual consequences across two generations

Nicolai Pharao; Kirsten Lundholm Appel; Vanessa Wolter; Jacob Thøgersen

Raising of /a/ in Copenhagen Danish: perceptual consequences across two generations

Nicolai Pharao, Kirsten Lundholm Appel, Vanessa Wolter, Jacob Thøgersen

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

Abstract

This study concerns differences in the perception of phonemes that have undergone near merger within the past few generations in the Copenhagen speech community. It is hypothesized that this process can lead to a difference in phoneme boundaries across generations. We studied the effect of speaker and listener age on the placement of the phoneme boundary between /ɛ/ and /a/ in Copenhagen Danish using a forced choice word identification task. The results show that younger listeners accept a greater range of vowels as tokens of /a/ in accordance with the changes in production of this phoneme.

Translated title of the contribution	Hævning af /a/ i moderne københavnsk rigsmål - perceptuelle konsekvenser på tværs af to generationer
Original language	English
Publication date	15 Aug 2015
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2015

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