Final Devoicing in the Phonology of German ( Linguistische Arbeiten )

Publication series ：Linguistische Arbeiten

Author： Wiebke Brockhaus  

Publisher： Max Niemeyer Verlag‎

Publication year： 1995

E-ISBN: 9783110966060

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783484303362

Subject： H33 German

Language： ENG

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Description

This book deals with final devoicing in German. Specifically, it discusses how this phonological event can be handled in a theoretical framework based on principles and parameters rather than rules. It begins with an outline of the data to be analysed, which is followed by a detailed discussion of earlier work on final devoicing. The author then introduces Government Phonology and develops a Government Phonology analysis which overcomes many of the problems associated with these previous accounts. She argues that final devoicing should be interpreted as a phonological weakening process which consists in the withdrawal of autosegmental licensing from the laryngeal element L (= voicing on obstruents). Finally, the author investigates whether final devoicing results in phonological neutralisation, as is often assumed in the literature.

Chapter

Abbreviations and Notational Conventions

pp.：  1 – 9

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 11

Introduction and Overview

pp.：  11 – 13

1. The ‘Facts’ of Final Obstruent Devoicing

pp.：  13 – 15

1.2 FOD in German

pp.：  15 – 18

1.1 Introduction

pp.：  15 – 15

1.3 Conclusion

pp.：  18 – 35

2. 25 Years of FOD: Earlier Approaches from 1968 to 1993

pp.：  35 – 36

2.2 What is FOD?

pp.：  36 – 37

2.1 Introduction

pp.：  36 – 36

2.3 The link between the ‘what’ and the ‘where’

pp.：  37 – 46

2.4 Where does FOD occur?

pp.：  46 – 49

2.5 Conclusion

pp.：  49 – 100

3. What is Final Obstruent Devoicing? A Government Phonology Approach

pp.：  100 – 101

3.2 Phonological licensing, government, ‘ground rules’ and some principles of grammar

pp.：  101 – 102

3.1 Introduction

pp.：  101 – 101

3.3 Phonological elements and segmental representations in GP

pp.：  102 – 116

3.4 What are the changes involved in FOD?

pp.：  116 – 128

3.5 Conclusion

pp.：  128 – 168

4. Where Does Final Obstruent Devoicing Occur? A Government Phonology Approach

pp.：  168 – 170

4.1 Introduction

pp.：  170 – 170

4.2 Straightforward FOD environments

pp.：  170 – 170

4.3 FOD as an instance of autosegmental licensing

pp.：  170 – 183

4.4 FOD in Vennemann’s variable items

pp.：  183 – 197

4.5 Some problems with Rubach’s analysis revisited

pp.：  197 – 238

4.6 Apparent failure of FOD to apply word-finally

pp.：  238 – 245

4.7 Conclusion

pp.：  245 – 248

5. Final Obstruent Devoicing and Neutralisation

pp.：  248 – 250

5.2 Neutralisation and the traditional place of FOD

pp.：  250 – 250

5.3 The neutralisation debate in the experimental literature

pp.：  250 – 254

5.1 Introduction

pp.：  250 – 250

5.4 The GP analysis

pp.：  254 – 262

5.5 Conclusion

pp.：  262 – 273

References

pp.：  273 – 275

LastPages

pp.：  275 – 289