Whose German?. The achich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’.
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| Title: | Whose German?. The achich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’. |
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| Description: | 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 phonologic. |
| Authors: | ROBINSON, Orrin W. |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | German language--Variation, German language--Spoken German, German language--Pronunciation, German language--Standardization, German language--Lexicography |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE STUDY / German |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 phonologic. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027237156 9789027299529 |
