Velar fronting in German dialects : : a study in synchronic and diachronic phonology / / Tracy Alan Hall.
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....
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin, Germany, : : Language Science Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (922 pages) |
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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.