Schwa and the structure of words in German

Bibliographic Data

ID3987675
AuthorsRichard Wiese (0000-0001-7333-1589, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume24
Issue4
Publication date1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.1986.24.4.697
OpenAlexW2011989771
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited13

This paper argues for a treatment of schwa in German as a vowel of epenthesis. The analysis presupposes a CV model of the syllable in German. Within this framework, an epenthesis rule is given, which is then applied to all forms of schwa, even the word-final ones. Assuming a particular version of a lexicon (following the theory of lexical phonology) and distributing the epenthesis rule over all levels in the lexicon, the analysis succeeds in describing all subgroups of schwa occurrence adequately and is argued to be superior to accounts previously proposed. Syllabic sonor ants are handled by a postlexical rule of reassociation between sonorants and the syllabic

German · Linguistics · Schwa · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis

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