Velar fronting in German dialects : : a study in synchronic and diachronic phonology / / Tracy Alan Hall.

• VerfasserIn: Alan Hall, Tracy,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany, : : Language Science Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (922 pages)

Velar Fronting (VF) is the name for any synchronic or diachronic phonological process shifting the velar place of articulation to the palatal region of the vocal tract. A well-known case of VF in Standard German is the rule specifying that the fricative [x] assimilates to [ç] after front segments....

Table of Contents

• List of maps
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Theoretical background
• 3 Allophony (Part 1)
• 4 Allophony (part 2)
• 5 Underapplication opacity
• 6 Neutral vowels
• 7 Quasi-phonemicization of palatals
• 8 Phonemicization of palatals (part 1)
• 9 Phonemicization of palatals (part 2)
• 10 Phonemicization of palatals (part 3)
• 11 Velar noncontinuants as targets
• 12 Targets, triggers, and rule generalization
• 13 Velar fronting in Lower Bavaria
• 14 The nonassimilatory fronting of velars
• 15 Velar fronting islands
• 16 When and where was velar fronting phonologized?
• 17 Velar Fronting in Standard German
• 18 Summary and conclusion
• Appendix A: Classification of High and Low German dialects711
• Appendix B: Historical map715
• Appendix C: List of German dialects investigated717
• Appendix D: Versions of velar fronting757
• Appendix E: Family tree for Germanic languages759
• Appendix F: Modern reflexes of historical dorsal sounds761
• Appendix G: The status of [x] and [ç] in loanwords
• Appendix H: Inventories of nonsyllabic sounds
• Appendix I: Velar fronting parallels in a selection of Indo-European lan-guages
• Appendix J: List of places in Lower Bavaria (SNiB)785
• Appendix K: List of dialect dictionaries789
• Appendix L: List of linguistic atlases791
• References795
• Index.