Multiethnic urban German (Hood German) as spoken by adolescents in Berlin differs in several significant ways from more standard varieties of Berlin German. It is characterized by a variety of morpho-syntactic alternations and phonetic variants uncommon to the regional standard spoken in Berlin. Previous quan- titative corpus analyses have shown that overall speakers of the multiethnic youth style German have a strong tendency to centralize /OI/ compared to speakers rendering the local regional standard. This paper now summarizes this centralization tendency and investigates auditory salient realizations of variation by individuals which show tendencies towards a hiatus in the diphthong /OI/, breaking the nucleus and the off glide. Moreover, there are other prosodic and segmental co-occurring features in the speech of some adolescents which are displayed since it is suspected that some of these may be(come) markers of Hood German.
Cite as: Jannedy, S., Weirich, M. (2014) Some aspects on individual speaking style features in Hood German. Proc. Speech Prosody 2014, 843-847, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-158
@inproceedings{jannedy14_speechprosody,
author={Stefanie Jannedy and Melanie Weirich},
title={{Some aspects on individual speaking style features in Hood German}},
year=2014,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2014},
pages={843--847},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-158}
}