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Chapter 2 - Germanic Syllable Structure

from Part I - Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

By
Marc van Oostendorp
Edited by
Michael T. Putnam  and
B. Richard Page
Michael T. Putnam
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
B. Richard Page
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

We describe the syllable structure phenomena in modern Germanic languages, mostly in their standardized form – Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish. The chapter concentrates on consonant cluster phonotactics at various positions in the word and compares the possibilities that languages have in these positions. It turns out that Germanic languages are extremely similar and all seem to use the same basic template with some minor variation.

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phonotaxisconsonant clusterssonoritycoronals
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The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics , pp. 33 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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