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The Representation of Affricates in Cimbrian German

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2012

Tracy Alan Hall*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
*
Department of Germanic Studies, Ballantine Hall 644, Indiana University, 1020 Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405–7103, USA, [tahall2@indiana.edu]

Abstract

It is argued that Cimbrian German requires reference to the natural class of affricates and fricatives and that this grouping is captured by analyzing both sets of sounds as [+continuant]. This finding is problematic for theories that treat affricates as strident stops without a [+continuant] component.*

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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 2012

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