Adrian Leemann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Adrian Leemann is involved.

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Swiss German Intonation Patterns

Adrian Leemann

Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has,… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 10] 2012. xv, 331 pp.

Articles

Gopal, Deepthi, Tam Blaxter, David Willis and Adrian Leemann 2021 Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), pp. 253–278 | Chapter

Established models of the spatial diffusion of linguistic innovations vary in their relationship to population density. Differences in prediction between the gravity models (Trudgill 1974), in which probability of diffusion is sensitive to settlement size, and the traditional wave models can be… read more

Leemann, Adrian 2009 Intonational variation in Swiss German Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007, Tsiplakou, Stavroula, Marilena Karyolemou and Pavlos Pavlou (eds.), pp. 135–144 | Article

The present study offers preliminary results on the intonation of Swiss German dialects spoken in Berne, Brig, and Zurich. In following a predominantly phonetic approach, the comparison of the subjects from each location allows for a distinction between region-specific and individual intonational… read more