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The Velar Stops and Fricatives in the Language of MSS A, B, C of the Nibelungenlied

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

William G. Moulton
William G. Moulton
Affiliation:
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey and University of MunichMunich, Germany
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Abstract

The publication of Batts 1971 (the actual scribal spellings in MSS A, B, C of the Nibelungenlied) and of Bäuml-Fallone 1976 (A concordance to the Nibelungenlied) for the first time have provided access to scribal spellings as the most direct evidence for the phonological structure of Middle High German (at least in this important work). This study is limited to the velar stops, affricates, fricatives. The scribal spellings together with historical eveidence and the modern dialects suggest the full structure of the velars. Finally, it is shown that the “normalized spelling” is in three respects misleading, at least for the Nibelungenlied.

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Research Article
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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 67 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1989

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