Whose German?
The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in 'standard' and 'colloquial'
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2001
XII, 178 pages
978-90-272-9952-9 (ISBN)
Description
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of colloquial pronunciations, as well as historical and dialect evidence, for phonological analyses of the "standard" language. Other important topics include the phonetic and phonological status of German /r/, the phonetic and phonological representation of palatals, the status of loanwords in phonological description, and, especially as regards the latter, the usefulness of Optimality Theory in capturing phonological facts.The book addresses itself to scholars from the fields of German and Germanic linguistics, as well as those concerned more generally with theoretical phonology (whether Lexical or Optimal). It may even appeal to the orthoëpists and lexicographers of modern German.
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Whose German?
The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in 'standard' and 'colloquial'
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Content
- WHOSE GERMAN?
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. What is Standard German?
- Chapter 2. The ach/ich alternation The bare facts
- Chapter 3. Survey of the literature
- Chapter 4. Non-automatic [ç]
- Chapter 5. Consonantal environments for [ç]
- Chapter 6. More data from regional German
- Chapter 7. A Lexical Phonological reanalysis of the ach/ich rule
- Chapter 8. An analysis within Optimality Theory
- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
