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Height, frontness and the special status of /x/, /r/ and /l/ in Germanic language history.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Height, frontness and the special status of /x/, /r/ and /l/ in Germanic language history./
Author:	Kostakis, Andrew.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	459 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-05A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3746195
ISBN:	9781339394466

Height, frontness and the special status of /x/, /r/ and /l/ in Germanic language history.
Kostakis, Andrew.

Height, frontness and the special status of /x/, /r/ and /l/ in Germanic language history. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 459 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

This dissertation examines a selection of vowel-consonant interactions in the history of Germanic languages, namely, those in which the dorsal fricative /x/ and either one or both of the liquids /r/ and /l/ pattern as a natural class of sounds. Sound changes exemplifying such interactions which the dissertation addresses include GOTHIC LOWERING, OLD HIGH GERMAN PRIMARY UMLAUT, OLD NORSE R-UMLAUT, OLD ENGLISH BREAKING and OLD FRISIAN BREAKING . The scholarly literature has been unable to produce a satisfactory account of these changes because it has neither successfully characterized the vocalic structure of early Germanic languages nor identified the phonological features involved.

ISBN: 9781339394466Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Height, frontness and the special status of /x/, /r/ and /l/ in Germanic language history.
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520 $a This dissertation examines a selection of vowel-consonant interactions in the history of Germanic languages, namely, those in which the dorsal fricative /x/ and either one or both of the liquids /r/ and /l/ pattern as a natural class of sounds. Sound changes exemplifying such interactions which the dissertation addresses include GOTHIC LOWERING, OLD HIGH GERMAN PRIMARY UMLAUT, OLD NORSE R-UMLAUT, OLD ENGLISH BREAKING and OLD FRISIAN BREAKING . The scholarly literature has been unable to produce a satisfactory account of these changes because it has neither successfully characterized the vocalic structure of early Germanic languages nor identified the phonological features involved.
520 $a Concerning vocalic structure, I argue that mid vowels in Germanic languages pattern as complex segments that are specified with the features [ HIGH] and [LOW]. This claim is supported by a number of changes in Proto-Germanic that involve the raising and lowering of mid vowels.
520 $a The dissertation also contends that height features ([HIGH] and [LOW]) and frontness features ([FRONT] and [BACK]) are the ones involved in the interactions between vowels and the consonants /x/, /r/ and /l/.
520 $a A height interaction is exemplified by Old High German Primary Umlaut (the shift from the low vowel [a] to the mid vowel [e] when a high, front vowel or vocoid ([i] or [j]) follows in the neighboring syllable). This change is analyzed as the spreading of height features. That spreading is blocked by the no-crossing constraint when [HIGH] realizations of /x/, /r/ and /l/ intervene between the trigger and target of the change as they share height features in common with [i] and [j].
520 $a In Old English, realizations of /x/, /r/ and /l/ pattern as [ FRONT] consonants. Preceding one of these front consonants, a simple front vowel (like /e/) shifted to a complex vocalic segment (like /eo/), consisting of a front onglide (the /e/ portion of the diphthong) and a back offglide (the ensuing /o/ portion). I argue that this change, OLD ENGLISH BREAKING , is an example of frontness dissimilation because the new back offglide made the original front vowel less similar to adjacent front consonants.
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