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- Title
Constraints and repair strategies in Early Germanic and the phonology of Old High German <z>.
- Authors
Hall, Tracy Alan
- Abstract
A question that has received little attention in the published literature is whether or not the Old High German coronal fricative reflex of Proto-Germanic */t/ was [+strident] (i. e. an ›s‹ sound) or [-strident] (i. e. a ›th‹ sound). It will be argued that the former treatment is correct. Typological evidence will be presented against the claim that the new coronal fricative was a [-strident] sound ( pace Voyles 1972, 1992). The present treatment offers a new explanation for why */t/ emerged as a [+strident] fricative in Old High German. It will be argued that the change from */p t k/ ([-continuant]) to the corresponding fricatives ([+continuant]) by the spirantization component of the High German Consonant Shift created an ill-formed phonological representation in the case of */t/, which then underwent a Repair Rule to a [+strident] sound. The present analysis also accounts for languages in which the spirantization of a coronal stop resulted in a [-strident] sound, e. g. the shift from Proto-Indo European */t/ to Proto-Germanic */θ/ via Grimm's Law.
- Subjects
GERMANS; PHONOLOGY; LITERATURE; LANGUAGE &; languages; FRICATIVES (Phonetics); SIMILARITY (Language learning)
- Publication
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2014, Vol 136, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0005-8076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bgsl-2014-0001