German glide formation functionally viewed
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j. Traditional descriptions of glide formation (including derivational as well as Optimality theoretic approaches) refer to the syllable in order to capture its conditions. The present study illustrates that glide formation (plus the distribution of long and short tense /i/) in German can better be captured in a Functional Phonology account (Boersma 1998) which makes reference to stress instead of the syllable and thus overcomes problems of former approaches.
| Author: | Silke Hamann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1133616 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 01.10.2009 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | Halbvokal |
| SWD-Keyword: | Phonem |
| Source: | http://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~hamann/Hamann2003GlideFormation.pdf ; (in:) Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann: Papers in Phonetics and Phonology : ZAS Papers in Linguistics. - Berlin: 32, 2003, S. 137-154 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 219024839 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
