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Changing from Syllable-Rhythm to Word-Rhythm: Parallels between Danish and Northern Alemannic

Published/Copyright: April 2, 2009
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Dialectologia et Geolinguistica
From the journal Volume 2007 Issue 15

Summary

Languages and dialects can change from one prosodic category to another, causing thereby phonetic and phonological changes. This happened in Danish as well as in Northern Alemannic when both changed their basic rhythm from a more syllable-based system to a more word-based one. The consequences of this transition were very similar, some even identical. This article focuses on these similarities comparing the development of the plosive sounds as well as the assimilation of nd >n in Danish and in a small area of Northern Alemannic in the transition area to Rhenish Franconian. Furthermore some of the changes that have taken place in a wider area of Northern Alemannic are discussed such as the deletion of word final vowels (apocope), the introduction of the glottal stop, the linking n in hiatus position as well as phonetic assimilation across word boundaries.

Published Online: 2009-04-02
Published in Print: 2007-November

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https://doi.org/10.1515/DIALECT.2007.008

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Estudio del campo léxico de la vaca en gallego: el pescuezo
  2. Language Change and Areal Linguistics: Notes on Western Piedmont
  3. Dialect Boom in Japan
  4. Terminologie des Töpferhandwerks aus dem Übermurgebiet/Prekmurje
  5. Ternary Deictic System in Aromanian
  6. Dedialectalization or the Death of a Dialect: The Case of the Catalan Subdialect Spoken in the Costa Brava
  7. Atlas Linguistiques Roumains
  8. Changing from Syllable-Rhythm to Word-Rhythm: Parallels between Danish and Northern Alemannic
  9. Summer Course: Linguistic Geography of the Iberian Peninsula: Projects and Methods
  10. Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen
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