Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1994
VI, 127 pages
978-90-272-7286-7 (ISBN)
Description
The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular interest from this point of view, because voice and aspiration, the features traditionally associated with strength, are generally absent. Changes related to strength such as lenition, vowel lengthening, simplification of geminates, and sandhi phenomena receive special attention. The findings are put into their appropriate context by comparison to the results of research on the status of strength in standard German and the modern Germanic languages. Although the realization of strength is language-specific and varies according to word-position, it can be equated with consonant length in standard German and Upper German dialects.
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Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF MAPS
- PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION
- PREFACE
- 0. INTRODUCTION
- 1. STRENGTH IN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
- 1.0. Introduction
- 1.1. Voice and aspiration
- 1.2. Air pressure and tension
- 1.3. Length
- 1.4. Strength as a combination of features
- 2. STRENGTH IN STANDARD GERMAN
- 2.0. Varieties of standard German
- 2.1. Voice
- 2.2. Aspiration
- 2.3. Air pressure and tension
- 2.4. Length
- 3. STRENGTH IN UPPER GERMAN DIALECTS
- 3.0. Strength and the grouping of Upper German dialects
- 3.1. Voiceand aspiration
- 3.2. The High German lenition
- 3.2.1. Initial position.
- 3.2.2. Medial position.
- 3.2.3. Final position.
- 3.3. Vowel length and consonant stren
- 3.3.1. Lengthening in open syllables.
- 3.3.2. Lengthening in monosyllables.
- 3.3.3. Shortening before fortis.
- 3.3.4. Winteler's law.
- 3.3.5. The Middle and North Bavarian lenition.
- 3.3.6. The Carinthian lengthenin
- 3.3.7. Vowel length and correlation of syllable cut.
- 3.4. Strength changes of consonants in contact
- 3.4.1. Heusler's law.
- 3.4.2. Spirantization.
- 3.4.3. Notker's law.
- 3.4.4. Strengthening by syncope.
- 3.4.5. Lenition in sandhi.
- 3.4.6. Strengthening in emphasis.
- 3.4.7. Initial consonants in South Upper German
- 3.5. Consonant strength and consonant length
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
