Journal article
Evidence for sk in German as a Complex Segment
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Vol.32(1), pp.83-95
2020
DOI: 10.1017/S1470542719000126
Abstract
This squib provides evidence from the superlative in support of Wiese’s (1996) position that s (sibilant) + stop sequences in German behave as complex segments. With the exception of the sequence /sk/, the consonants that require schwa epenthesis before the superlative suffix are all coronal obstruents: nettest- [ˈnɛtəst] ‘nicest’, süßest- [ˈzyːsəst] ‘sweetest’, frischest- [ˈfrɪʃəst] ‘freshest’, brüskest- [ˈbrʏskəst] ‘most abrupt’. If one assumes that the sequence /sk/ is a single, complex segment with the feature [coronal] as well as [dorsal], the formation of the superlative can be accounted for with a simple rule of schwa epenthesis.*
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evidence for sk in German as a Complex Segment
- Creators
- Sarah M. B. Fagan
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Vol.32(1), pp.83-95
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1470542719000126
- ISSN
- 1470-5427
- eISSN
- 1475-3014
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- German; Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222808102771
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