UID:
almafu_9959243467402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (135 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-57451-9
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9786613886965
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90-272-7286-7
Serie:
NOWELE Supplement Series
Inhalt:
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
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Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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.
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3.4.7. Initial consonants in South Upper German3.5. Consonant strength and consonant length; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 87-7492-959-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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