Norddeutsche Standardaussprache - damals und heute. Einige Bemerkungen zur Aktualisierung des endogenen Aussprachestandards in Mecklenburg
Northern German Standard Pronunciation – Then and Now. Some Observations on Updating the Endogenous Pronunciation Standards in Mecklenburg

Summary/Abstract: Standard German pronunciation, despite numerous attempts of its codifying, is still heterogeneous. Its actualization constitutes two mezolektal variants, similar either to the exogenic standard of the pronunciation or to regiolets. On the map presenting variants of the endogenous standard pronunciation a special place is taken by the northern German variants. Due to the exchange of language systems in that area, the exogenic standard pronunciation was acquired like a foreign language. Owing to that fact, the standard pronunciation variants are most similar to the codified standard. It does not mean that they are free from the Low German influences. In the present article the gathered sound corpus has been analyzed and the types of exceptions to the exogenic standard have been distinguished, that is, the phonolistic variants of pronunciation, which result from farreaching coarticualtory processes as well as the variants resulting from an influence of a base dialect. The research findings were compared with the state of research conducted by Eve Sophie Dahl, thirty years earlier.

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