Quantity and Prosodic Asymmetries in Alemannic: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

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Walter de Gruyter, Apr 7, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 287 pages

Phonology and Phonetics have had a tumultuous, if not always unequivocal, relationship in the past. This relationship between natural partners is now being invigorated from both sides and novel research techniques and methodologies are fostering new interdisciplinary questions. Consequently, a major issue today is whether it is necessary to draw a line between phonology and phonetics at all. This series aims to stabilize and strengthen the rapport and, by facing the big challenges, to ensure that phonetically grounded phonology and phonologically informed phonetics will have a sound future.

The series is intended as a forum for the interaction of phonology and phonetics within linguistics. It welcomes joint phonological-phonetic ventures as well as initiatives from either discipline, as long as they are made with a view of the other.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Theoretical background and assumptions
9
Chapter 2 The synchronic sound system of Thurgovian
41
Chapter 3 The Germanic legacy
57
Phonetic evidence
97
Chapter 5 Weight and stress patterns
169
Conclusion
219
Backmatter
225
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About the author (2009)

Astrid Kraehenmann teaches at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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