Volume
The sound level represents the "state of the phonetic development of a language" at a given point in time; in a diachronic or diatopic way of looking at things, it describes the entire system of sounds in a language .
If the volume changes, usually over a longer period of time, one speaks of sound change . Dialects of a language often differ in terms of the sound level.
literature
- German language. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, pp. 739-747. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- Otto Gröger : The sound level of the German dialect of Samnaun compared to that of the neighboring Tyrolean dialects. Journal for German dialects. Franz Steiner Verlag, 19th year, volume 1/2, Festschrift Albert Bachman (1924), pp. 103-144.
- Sieglinde Schedl: Loudness and Sound Change in Linguistic Research. An investigation using the Great English Long Vowel Shift. Series: Forum Anglicum. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris, 1990. ISBN 978-3-631-43047-7 .