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Constraints and repair strategies in Early Germanic and the phonology of Old High German <z>

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Abstract

A question that has received little attention in the published literature is whether or not the Old High German coronal fricative reflex of Proto-Germanic */t/ was [+strident] (i. e. an ›s‹ sound) or [‒strident] (i. e. a ›th‹ sound). It will be argued that the former treatment is correct. Typological evidence will be presented against the claim that the new coronal fricative was a [‒strident] sound (pace Voyles 1972, 1992).

The present treatment offers a new explanation for why */t/ emerged as a [+strident] fricative in Old High German. It will be argued that the change from */p t k/ ([‒continuant]) to the corresponding fricatives ([+continuant]) by the spirantization component of the High German Consonant Shift created an ill-formed phonological representation in the case of */t/, which then underwent a Repair Rule to a [+strident] sound. The present analysis also accounts for languages in which the spirantization of a coronal stop resulted in a [‒strident] sound, e. g. the shift from Proto-Indo European */t/ to Proto-Germanic */θ/ via Grimm’s Law.

I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of the present article. The usual disclaimers apply.

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