Zur Exemplifizierung ausgewählter Reduktionsformen im Gespräch als Ausdruck des endogenen Aussprachestandards
Exemplification of selected reduced forms in conversation as a feature of endogenic pronunciation standard

Summary/Abstract: The previous norms of the standard German pronunciation consciously coded the highest phonostylistic plane and imposed orthophonetic patterns, which generally deviated from their realisation in everyday linguistic interactions, in which the standard German pronunciation enriched with reduction processes was used. In order to balance the disparities, studies on a new codification of pronunciation are currently being undertaken, which are based not only on numerous sociolinguistic questionnaires but also take into account the diversity of German pronunciation as used in everyday situations. A number of sociophonetic studies prove that many native speakers of standard German actually expect the orthophonic norms to open to the lower phonostylistic levels, which are characteristic to every spontaneously generated act of oral linguistic communication. This paper makes an attempt at exemplifying typical reduced forms by making them evident with the use of spectrographic method and by determining their cause. The aim of the paper is also to draw German phonetics teachers’ attention to these universal linguistic processes, which for a long time have been discredited by the pronunciation dictionaries as belonging to a pejoratively understood category of colloquial language.

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