Journal article
Final Devoicing and Cyclic Syllabification in German
Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR), Vol.21(1), pp.79-94
1990
Abstract
It is argued that the two mutually contradictory theories of final devoicing in German - that the rule operates at the end of a morpheme, & that it operates at the end of the syllable - can be reconciled within the framework of lexical phonology. The solution rests on the assumption that the rule is syllable-conditioned but is fed by syllable structure assignment, which is cyclic. It is shown that the consonant-vowel rule as a mechanism for resyllabifying codas is superior to the treatment of this problem under the assumption that final consonants are universally extrametrical. 22 References. AA
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Final Devoicing and Cyclic Syllabification in German
- Creators
- J Rubach
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR), Vol.21(1), pp.79-94
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- ISSN
- 0024-3892
- eISSN
- 1530-9150
- Number of pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1990
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222810402771
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