Sylvia Moosmüller

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Sylvia Moosmüller (born April 6, 1954 in Mondsee ; † April 17, 2018 in Vienna ) was an Austrian phonetician and linguist .

Life

Moosmüller studied general and applied linguistics in Vienna and received his dissertation in 1984 with the topic "Social and psychosocial language variation: a quantitative and qualitative study of contemporary Viennese German", an analysis of the sociophonological situation in Vienna as part of the Vienna Sociophonological School. She then worked on various projects on the phonology of Viennese German v. a. together with Wolfgang U. Dressler . In 1991 the book "High Language and Dialect in Austria: Sociophonological Studies on Their Differentiation in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck" was published, which examines the language modes and language attitudes in four Austrian cities.

In addition to phonological and phonetic studies, she has contributed to the field of feminist linguistics and gender studies.

Since 1992 she has been working in the field of forensic and general phonetics at the Commission for Sound Research (later: Institute for Sound Research) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and regularly taught phonetics and phonology at the University of Vienna and speech therapy at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna. Phoniatrics-Audiology, occasionally also at the University of Graz. At the Institute for Sound Research at the ÖAW , she was head of the phonetics department and deputy director from 2008 to 2015.

With her habilitation thesis (2007) "Vowels in Standard Austrian German: an acoustic-phonetic and phonological analysis", she became an "Associate Professor for Applied Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology" at the University of Vienna in 2008.

Sylvia Moosmüller was Secretary of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), and a member of the Working Group for Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis in the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1987: Sociophonological Variation in Contemporary Viennese German. An empirical study. Stuttgart: Steiner (= journal for dialectology and linguistics. 56).
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1988: Sociophonology. in: Auer, Peter & Aldo di Luzio (ed.): Variation and Convergence. Studies in Social Dialectology. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 76-93.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1991: High-level language and dialect in Austria: sociophonological studies on their delimitation in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau. (= Linguistic Series 1).
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1995: Assessment and Evaluation of Dialect and Standard in Austria. in: Werlen, Iwar (ed.): Verbal communication in the city. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 295-316.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1995: Evaluation of language use in public discourse. in: Stevenson, Patrick (ed.): The German Language and the Real World. Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 257-278.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 1996: The Austrian variant of the standard pronunciation. in: Eva-Maria Krech & Ulrich Püschel: Contributions to German standard pronunciation. Hanau & Halle: Verlag Werner Dausien (= Hallesche Schriften zur Speechwissenschaft und Phonetik 1), pp. 204-214.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 2007: Vowels in Standard Austrian German. An acoustic-phonetic and phonological analysis. (Habilitation thesis, Vienna.).
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 2011: Sound changes and variation in the Viennese dialect. in: K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk & K. Debowska-Kozlowska (eds.): Words and sounds. A selection of papers from the 40th PLM 2009 (pp. 134-147). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia 2017: Brief History of Phonetics in Austria, in: Moosmüller, Sylvia & Carolin Schmid & Manfred Sellner (eds.), Phonetik in und über Österreich. Vienna (Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), pp. 7-13.
  • Moosmüller, Sylvia & Carolin Schmid & Manfred Sellner (Eds.) 2017: Phonetik in und über Österreich (Publications on Linguistics and Communication Research Vol. 31). Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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personal data
SURNAME Moosmüller, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian phonetician and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mondsee
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2018
Place of death Vienna