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In the present paper a constraint-based description of German word prosody is suggested in which the constraint ranking is in crucial parts supported empirically by experimental findings from a pseudoword production task and from studies using electrophysiological measurements. It is shown how stress patterns of existing German words as well as experimental results on diverse prosodic structures can...
Among the patterns of declension exhibited by German nouns and adjectives, there are some that are traditionally labelled ‘weak’. It is argued here that the behaviour of ‘weak’ noun and adjective forms can be best understood if their inflectional suffixes are regarded not as expressing morphosyntactic properties such as gender and case but rather as the outcome of conflicting ranked constraints governing...
In many varieties of Southern German the contrast between /s/ and / $$\int$$ / is neutralized to $$[\int]$$ before /p t/ anywhere within a word (e.g. $$Post \,[{\rm po}\int t]$$ ‘mail’), but neutralization does not occur before inflectional suffixes (e.e. küss-t [kyst] ‘kiss (3 SG)’). It will be argued that the underapplication of neutralization before inflectional suffixes is an example...
This paper discusses alternations between [t] and [ts] in Modern German which require a process of assibilation whereby /t/ surfaces as [ts] before [j]. Although many German words have surface [tj] sequences which appear to be exceptional, it will be shown that the overwhelming number of these examples are systematic exceptions; by contrast, truly idiosyncratic exceptions to the process are rare....
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