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The Phonetic Organization of Early Germanic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Anatoly Liberman
Anatoly Liberman
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University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Abstract

The article deals with segmentation and stress in early Germanic. An attempt is made to isolate minimal prosodic units of Germanic, not traditional syllables. These units are then analyzed in terms of morae and phonemes. Alternations by the Akzentumsprung and Verner's law are interpreted as indicating that early Germanic had sentence rather than word stress.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1990

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