German glide formation functionally viewed
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https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.32.2003.189Abstract
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *ʁj. Traditional descriptions of glide formation (including derivational as well as Optimality theoretic approaches) refer to the syllable in order to capture its conditions. The present study illustrates that glide formation (plus the distribution of long and short tense /i/) in German can better be captured in a Functional Phonology account (Boersma 1998) which makes reference to stress instead of the syllable and thus overcomes problems of former approaches.
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2003-01-01
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Hamann, Silke. 2003. „German Glide Formation Functionally Viewed“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 32 (Januar):137-54. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.32.2003.189.
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