TY  - CONF
A1  - Raffelsiefen, Renate
A1  - Brinckmann, Caren
T1  - Evaluating phonological status : significance of paradigm uniformity vs. prosodic group effects
T2  - Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, 6-10 August 2007
N2  - A central concern of linguistic phonetics is to define criteria for determining the phonological status of sounds or sound properties observed in phonetic surface form. Based on acoustic measurements we show that the occurrence of syllabic sonorants vs. schwa-sonorant sequences in German is determined exclusively by segmental and prosodic structure, with no paradigm uniformity effects. We argue that these findings are consistent with a uniform representation of syllabic sonorants as schwa sonorant sequences in the lexicon. The stability of schwa in CVC-suffixes (e.g. the German diminutive suffix -chen), as opposed to its phonetic absence in a segmentally comparable underived context, is argued to be conditioned by the prosodic organisation of such suffixes external to the phonological word of the stem.
KW  - paradigm uniformity
KW  - phonological word
KW  - phonological status
KW  - German
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11803
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1127101
UR  - http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1684/1684.pdf
SP  - 1441
EP  - 1444
ER  -