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Effective presentation is a skill wanted by many. This competence is of great relevance for scientific lectures and can be transferred to other speech situations such as student seminar papers or oral presentations. How to achieve the intended speech effects and how to act rhetorically competently is often explained in the scientific literature. However, this monograph is also devoted to the unintended effects of speech, taking into account their causes.

This text is dedicated to segment extensions. It makes up an integral part of the dissertation project under the title “Variation of the segmental characteristic quantity at higher levels of phonetic manifestation on the basics of selected text types in German, Italian and Polish”. The article presents some considerations and comments on the topic of segmental quantity as well as observed regularities and tendencies.

Dieser Beitrag ist dem Phänomen der Vokalverlängerung im Deutschen und Italienischen gewidmet. Der Analyse wurden die Expertenvorträge unterzogen, die auf der Internetseite gewiss.uni-leipzig.de veröffentlicht wurden. Das erklärte Ziel der Forschung ist Bestimmung der Funktion, die von Vokalaus-dehnungen ausgeübt wird. Ein weiteres Ziel ist demnach Antwort auf die Frage, ob Vokalverlängerungen mit Fokusakzenten einhergehen. The aim of this paper is to analyse and to compare the vowel extension in the academic spoken texts in German and Italian. It contains corpus-based analysis of lectures, which were published on web page gewiss.uni-leipzig.de. In this study the function of vowel extension is established. Furthermore, the author of this article has attempted to answer the question, if vowel extensions are accompanied by focus accents.