Zur sogenannten Vokalopposition im Deutschen

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ID19415547
AuthorsJurgen Lenerz (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume19
Issue2
Pages167-209
Publication date2000-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0721-9067 • E-ISSN: 1613-3706
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/zfsw.2000.19.2.167
OpenAlexW2086540023
LanguageDE
References cited11

Traditional accounts of the German vowel System make a distinction between long (tense) and short (lax) vowels in stressed syllables. This is the so-called vowel Opposition. A proper phonological account has to relate a prosodic property (length) to a segmental property (tenseness) and arguably to another prosodic property (stress). Current generative approaches can be shown to fail this task in certain aspects. A different approach is given in so-called syllable cut theories. A recent proposal by Becker (1998) assumes an allophonic Variation in unstressed syllables. In stressed syllables, he derives the so-called vowel Opposition from a prosodic Opposition between a smoothly cut syllable (long vowel) and an abruptly cut syllable (short vowel). This approach, however, suffers a number of drawbacks, too, which are discussed in some detail. In my own account, all occurrences of long/tense vs. short/lax vowels are analysed s allophonic, depending on an underlying prosodic distinction between open syllables (= long, tense variant of the vowel) and closed syllables (= short, lax variant), which holds for stressed and unstressed syllables alike. Thus, in my account there is no need for a specific notion of 'syllable cut'. The facts are easily derived from a rather traditional Version of the syllable in terms of a constituent structure, provided the associations between segments, timing slots, and syllable constituents are defined adequately

Generative grammar · Linguistics · Mid vowel · Speech recognition · Syllable · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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