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Spectral shapes of the three fricatives [çʃ] produced by a female speaker of Northern German Standard. Different fricatives are marked by different colors.
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In Berlin, the pronunciation of /ç/ as [ɕ] is associated with the multi-ethnic youth variety (Kiezdeutsch). This alternation is also known to be produced by French learners of German. While listeners form socio-cultural interpretations upon hearing language input, the associations differ depending on the listeners’ biases and stereotypes toward spe...
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... from psycholinguistic research, accounts of situated language processing have begun to include language user characteristics to model the observed inter-individual variability (Jannedy and Weirich, 2014;Münster and Knoeferle, 2018;Weirich et al., 2020). Related to the focus on inter-individual variation, much about mental representations remains to be uncovered regarding situation-dependent linguistic variability within one and the same group/language user and at the intersection with interindividual variation in language use. ...
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define “register” as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of “register”, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: (1) To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. (2) To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation-based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals' social, language, and educational background. (3) We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.
... Trotz der Schwierigkeiten das Konstrukt Varietät zu definieren, ist die Beschreibung des Kiezdeutschen als Varietät nach den Definitionen von Löffler (2008) und Berruto (2004) geeignet, um Unterschiede zum standardnahen System des Deutschen zu untersuchen. Das Kiezdeutsche zeichnet sich zum Beispiel im Vergleich mit dem Dialekt des Berlinerischen durch eine eher unübliche Koronalisierung des palatalen Frikativs (Jannedy/Weirich 2014c, Weirich et al. 2020) sowie durch die sehr häufige Nutzung der Vagheitspartikel so (Jannedy 2010) aus. Zudem wird es vor allem in der Ingroup-Kommunikation zwischen Jugendlichen unterschiedlicher Herkunft in multiethnischen Stadtvierteln Deutschlands gebraucht. ...
... Zudem wird es vor allem in der Ingroup-Kommunikation zwischen Jugendlichen unterschiedlicher Herkunft in multiethnischen Stadtvierteln Deutschlands gebraucht. Des Weiteren ist es für Sprecher*innen und Nicht-Sprecher*innen dieser Varietät möglich, diese Merkmale zu erkennen und von anderen Varietäten, wie dem Standarddeutschen, zu unterscheiden (Jannedy/Weirich 2014c, Weirich et al. 2020, Freywald et al. 2011. Durch die vorgenommene phonetische Untersuchung sollen weitere charakteristische sprachliche Merkmale herausgearbeitet werden, die ein in sich geschlossenes System bilden, das sich von anderen Varietäten abgrenzen lässt. ...
Kiezdeutsch is a variety of German which emerged in in multi-ethnic and multilingual urban neighbourhoods (Wiese 2009: 782). This German multiethnolect shows specific morphosyntactic alternations in comparison to Standard German, for example the usage of bare noun phrases for definite local expressions (Wiese/Pohle 2016) or pragmatically supported light verb constructions (Wiese 2006, 2009). Furthermore, there are a multitude of studies examining the variability on the grammatical level and the ethnographic circumstances of its development (vgl. Kallmeyer/Keim 2003a, 2003b; Dirim/Auer 2004; Keim 2004, 2008; Keim/Knöbl 2007, Paul et al. 2010; Freywald et al. 2011; Hinrichs 2013). However, there is still a lack of systematic investigation into the phonetics of Kiezdeutsch, with the exception of studies by Jannedy/Weirich (2013, 2014a, 2014b, 2014c, 2017, 2019, 2020) who investigated the acoustics of [ç] and [ɔʏ] in the Berlin-German multi-ethnolect. In the present study, we continue this line of research and look at vowel quality and quantity in Kiezdeutsch in comparison to a Standard German variety. Specially, we set out to test hypotheses which were based on auditory analyses alone(i. e., Auer, 2003; Tekin & Colliander, 2010). These hypotheses include that long vowels in Kiezdeutsch are produced shorter as well as more centralized than vowels in Standard German. We tested these hypotheses by means of acoustically and statistically analysed interview data from a group of male speakers for the vowels [iː], [eː] and [aː]. With regards to vowel quality, we did not find any significant differences between the Kiezdeutsch and the Standard German vowels, even though the vowels [e:] and [a:] were produced slightly further back in Kiezdeutsch. Regarding vowel quantity, we did find significant differences between the groups, in that all Kiezdeutsch vowels were on average produced shorter than the vowels produced by Standard German speakers. It therefore seems that quantity plays a more prominent role than quality when it comes to differences between Kiezdeutsch and Standard German vowels.
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has dedicated so many years of research. The authors are researchers of renowned international prestige who have made significant contributions in this field. The chapters cover a range of related topics and provide modern theoretical and methodological perspectives, addressing the structural, cognitive, historical and social factors that underlie and promote linguistic change in varieties of Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. The reader will find contributions that explore topics such as phonology, acoustic phonetics and processes deriving from the contact between languages or linguistic varieties, specifically levelling, koineisation, standardisation and the emergence of ethnolects.
Purpose
This study examines how professional technicians' teaching styles and students' learning readiness affect cooking skills performance in culinary inheritance.
Design/methodology/approach
This study constructed a learning performance model from the situated cognition perspective using a sample of students at universities and vocational colleges on a professional technician course. A total of 4,000 questionnaires were mailed to students, of which 2,018 were returned.
Findings
Students regard technical professors as teaching experts and expect them to care for their learning, while professional technicians' knowledge sharing significantly increases students' learning performance. The findings provide insight into professional technicians' teaching styles for academics.
Originality/value
This study focuses on the situated cognition perspective and its correlation with students' learning performance and discusses professional technicians' knowledge sharing as an important influencing factor.
