An analysis of post-vocalic /s-ʃ/ neutralization in Augsburg German: evidence for a gradient sound change

An analysis of post-vocalic /s-ʃ/ neutralization in Augsburg German: evidence for a gradient sound change

The study is concerned with a sound change in progress by which a post-vocalic, pre-consonantal /s-ʃ/ contrast in the standard variety of German (SG) in words such as west/wäscht (/vɛst/~/vɛʃt/, west/washes) is influencing the Augsburg German (AG) variety in which they have been hitherto neutralized...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Véronique eBukmaier, Jonathan eHarrington, Felicitas eKleber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
neutralization
Sound Change
dialect leveling
categorical vs. continuous
exemplar theory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00828/full

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