Umlaut: From Common Germanic to Dutch
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Cor van Bree
Abstract
This article deals with the Germanic umlaut processes in Common Germanic and Old West-Germanic. Section 1 presents a definition of umlaut and Section 2 gives an overview of different kinds of umlaut processes, including primary i-umlaut and secondary i-umlaut. Their phonological effects are discussed in Sections 3 and 4 attempts to offer an explanation for the various umlaut effects, e.g. why Common Germanic Umlaut precedes the Old West (and East) Germanic Umlaut and why the first Umlaut was limited to short vowels while the second one also applied to long vowels and diphthongs.
Abstract
This article deals with the Germanic umlaut processes in Common Germanic and Old West-Germanic. Section 1 presents a definition of umlaut and Section 2 gives an overview of different kinds of umlaut processes, including primary i-umlaut and secondary i-umlaut. Their phonological effects are discussed in Sections 3 and 4 attempts to offer an explanation for the various umlaut effects, e.g. why Common Germanic Umlaut precedes the Old West (and East) Germanic Umlaut and why the first Umlaut was limited to short vowels while the second one also applied to long vowels and diphthongs.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface IX
- Contents XI
- Umlaut: From Common Germanic to Dutch 1
- Vowel Copy in Iraqw Verbal Derivation 17
- Hungarian Possessive Allomorphy in the Lexicon 33
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being High: Openness as Structure and the Consequences for Prosody 71
- [+ATR] Dominance in Chumburung 91
- Paradigmatically Conditioned Phonetic Detail in Hungarian Neutral Vowels 107
- Old English Breaking as Vowel Excrescence 133
- Diachronic Vowel Harmony: From Middle to Modern Korean 151
- How Much Phonology in ‘Laryngeal Phonology’? 165
- The Representation of Nasal + Stop + Obstruent Clusters in English: Stop Insertion or Stop Deletion? 187
- A Perfect Mess in Ancient Greek: The Story of -ka 201
- Prompted Self-Repairs in Two-Year-Old Children 227
- Deriving Variable Phonological Visibility from Word Structure 249
- Recursion in Phonology: Anatomy of a Misunderstanding 265
- Phases and Accent Assignment Domains 289
- A Phonosyntactic Representation of Hungarian ‘Lowering’ 307
- Zellig Harris, Phonological Boundaries, and Features 327
- Blends and Overlaps in Relational Morphology 347
- Language Index 359
- Subject Index 361
- Contents of Part II 363
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface IX
- Contents XI
- Umlaut: From Common Germanic to Dutch 1
- Vowel Copy in Iraqw Verbal Derivation 17
- Hungarian Possessive Allomorphy in the Lexicon 33
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being High: Openness as Structure and the Consequences for Prosody 71
- [+ATR] Dominance in Chumburung 91
- Paradigmatically Conditioned Phonetic Detail in Hungarian Neutral Vowels 107
- Old English Breaking as Vowel Excrescence 133
- Diachronic Vowel Harmony: From Middle to Modern Korean 151
- How Much Phonology in ‘Laryngeal Phonology’? 165
- The Representation of Nasal + Stop + Obstruent Clusters in English: Stop Insertion or Stop Deletion? 187
- A Perfect Mess in Ancient Greek: The Story of -ka 201
- Prompted Self-Repairs in Two-Year-Old Children 227
- Deriving Variable Phonological Visibility from Word Structure 249
- Recursion in Phonology: Anatomy of a Misunderstanding 265
- Phases and Accent Assignment Domains 289
- A Phonosyntactic Representation of Hungarian ‘Lowering’ 307
- Zellig Harris, Phonological Boundaries, and Features 327
- Blends and Overlaps in Relational Morphology 347
- Language Index 359
- Subject Index 361
- Contents of Part II 363
