How To Handle Speech

Sami AwadNea KrivokapaMalte KlöpperAlice Krause

Introduction

Audio example:

German loanwords in the English language

In which semantic fields do you find

German loanwords?

Examples

Hypothesis

There is a difference between German and English in the pronunciation of „s“ and „z“

Data of our presentation

Getting the data:

- BFBS

- Hertz 87,9

Editing the data

- Cool Edit (more than 200 wav-files)

Analysed words

angstabseilersatz

lebensraumlederhosenpoltergeistrucksack

sauerkrautschnapsschnitzel

ssvolkslied

wanderlustwurst

zeitgeistzwieback

Results

Differences in the pronunciation of the graphemes „s“ and „z“

What are the reasons for these differences?

Phonotactical differences

on set n u c leu s cod a

firs t syllab le

on set n u c leu s cod a

secon d syllab le ...

w ord

Rules (Part One)

Examples:

German:

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Rules (Part Two)

Examples:

Consequences

AccentsMisunderstandingse.g. [zip] instead of [sip]

Questions?

References

http://www.goethe.de/gr/dub/projekt/deidtsp3.htmhttp://www.foreignword.com/http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~ketteman/forschungsprojekte/

anglizissmus/anglizismen.dochttp://www.eikon.tum.de/~skudi/http://members.eunet.at/robb/germanenglish/http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/hans.platzer/lnintegr.htmhttp://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~berndsen/Classes

/Modelle/ws3_html/http://www.uia.ac.be/u/bluhme/ http://www.ling.upenn.edu/