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  • Chapter 2 - Germanic Syllable Structure

  • from Part I - Phonology
  • Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, B. Richard Page, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
    Published online:
    31 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 33-48

  • Summary

    We describe the syllable structure phenomena in modern Germanic languages, mostly in their standardized form – Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish. The chapter concentrates on consonant cluster phonotactics at various positions in the word and compares the possibilities that languages have in these positions. It turns out that Germanic languages are extremely similar and all seem to use the same basic template with some minor variation.