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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2018
      May 2018
      ISBN:
      9781139540780
      9781107034501
      9781108928946
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139540780
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 296 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Phonetics and Phonology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (157)
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    Subjects:
    Phonetics and Phonology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (157)
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    The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quantity in a given language. Using data from older language stages, modern dialects and standard languages, this study examines the interdependence of vowel and consonant quantity in the history of the Germanic branch of Indo-European. Kurt Goblirsch focusses on the various geminations in Old Germanic languages (West Germanic gemination, glide strengthening, and expressive gemination), open syllable lengthening in German, Dutch, Frisian, English, and Scandinavian languages, and the major lenitions in High German, Low German, and Danish, as well as minor lenitions in Bavarian, Franconian, and Frisian dialects. All of these changes are related to the development of the Germanic languages from distinctive segmental length to complementary length to syllable cut. The discussion challenges traditional theoretical assumptions about quantity change in Germanic languages to argue for a new account whereby, gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are interrelated.

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