Acoustic Phonetics and its multidisciplinary aspects

The aim of this book is to recognize the work of Doz. Sylvia Moosmüller in the field of acoustic phonetics, which deals with the acoustic analysis of speech sounds. The essays in this volume are located in various fields of science. From sociophonetics, which investigates the relationship between language and the social world, to speech technology, where applications such as automatic translation programs and speaking computers are developed. In the first essay of the volume, Barbara Soukup deals with the topic of the various attitudes that are adopted towards language. Ralf Vollmann then deals with the difference between standard language and dialect. Brigitte Eisenwort and her co-authors dedicate themselves to growing up multilingual and language development disorders. Michael Pucher and Sylvia Moosmüller show how speech synthesis methods can contribute to a fruitful acoustic-phonetic analysis. Felicitas Kleber and co-authors dedicate themselves to the validity of Pfalz Law using the example of two Viennese dialects. In the work of Michaela Rausch-Supola and co-authors, in which Sylvia Moosmüller was also involved, the spread of the Meidlinger "L" is examined in a comparison of Vienna and Neunkirchen. The concluding contribution by Friedrich Neubarth deals with the possibilities of transcribing the Viennese dialect for use in machine translation.