Dialekt Im Alltag

On the basis of empirical material from interviews with 42 young speakers of Swiss German, the authors inquire whether it is possible to localize modern idiolects within Switzerland. The localization of varieties is undertaken with the aid of a horizontal dialect measurement procedure which, unlike vertical techniques, does not gauge the distance from standard but the similarity with local varieties. This makes it possible to identify both local features of the varieties in question and changes within Swiss German dialects in general.