Whose German?

The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’

 | Stanford University
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The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of colloquial pronunciations, as well as historical and dialect evidence, for phonological analyses of the “standard” language. Other important topics include the phonetic and phonological status of German /r/, the phonetic and phonological representation of palatals, the status of loanwords in phonological description, and, especially as regards the latter, the usefulness of Optimality Theory in capturing phonological facts.

The book addresses itself to scholars from the fields of German and Germanic linguistics, as well as those concerned more generally with theoretical phonology (whether Lexical or Optimal). It may even appeal to the orthoëpists and lexicographers of modern German.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001.  xii, 178 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Table of Contents
“[...] a skillful blend of descriptive thoroughness of a modern language with all its varaitions and a discerning and critical use of phonological theory.

[...] nowhere will find a more exhaustive historical overview of the various positions taken since 1929 [...]

“[...] eine souveräne Übersicht über die Forschungsgeschichte zu dieser Frage. das thematisierte phonologische Spezialproblem wird mit Hilfe der ganzen Palette (mor)phonologischer Beschreibungsformate und Lösungsmodelle [...] durchgearbeitet und abgearbeitet.”
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Cited by 11 other publications

Natvig, David
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CARDOSO, AMANDA & PATRICK HONEYBONE
2022. Palatalisation can be quantity-sensitive: Dorsal Fricative Assimilation in Liverpool English. Journal of Linguistics 58:4  pp. 759 ff. DOI logo
Hall, Tracy Alan
2022. The Pronunciation of German ch as Velar or Palatal from 1784 to 1841. Historiographia Linguistica 49:2-3  pp. 198 ff. DOI logo
Kijak, Artur Konrad
2021. Two palatovelar fricatives?! the case of theich-Lautin German. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 57:2  pp. 249 ff. DOI logo
Litty, Samantha, Jennifer Mercer & Joseph C. Salmons
2019. Chapter 7. Early immigrant English. In Processes of Change [Studies in Language Variation, 21],  pp. 115 ff. DOI logo
Hayes, Bruce & James White
2015. Saltation and the P-map. Phonology 32:2  pp. 267 ff. DOI logo
Hall, T. Alan
2014. The analysis of Westphalian German Spirantization. Diachronica 31:2  pp. 223 ff. DOI logo
Hall, T. A.
2008. Middle High German [rs] > [r ] as height dissimilation. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 11:3  pp. 213 ff. DOI logo
Hall, T. A.
2011. Coronals. In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology,  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Hall, T. A.
2014. Alveolopalatalization in Central German as Markedness Reduction. Transactions of the Philological Society 112:2  pp. 143 ff. DOI logo
Iverson, Gregory K. & Joseph C. Salmons
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CF: Linguistics

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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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