3.3 Other features

With both informants we can observe a high degree of r-dropping before consonants and pauses, which is a typical phenomenon of the London and south-eastern British accent (cf.Trudgill 1992).

Informant A shows an almost non-pulmonic velar ejective in word final position (for example in “cloak”) before pauses, which is not represented in the speech of informant B.

The ELL (English language learner) shows signs of final devoicing which is very common in German. Especially in the word “wind” where we find almost no trace of the final plosive in informant A's speech, we can clearly see the aperiodic wave of informant B's final /d/. This is a typical case of L1 interference leading to negative transfer.

The small pitch range of informant A is 68.5 Hz while his wide pitch range is 93.6 Hz.

Informant B's small pitch range is 71.1 Hz and her wide pitch range is 89.4 Hz. It would be interesting to find out if the average woman has a wider small pitch range than the average man and the average man a wider wide pitch range or if this is merely a coincidence.

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