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Alphabet & Pronunciation

German alphabet, umlauts, ß, vowel length and key pronunciation rules
Phonologie: Merkmalstheorie des Deutschen
Phonology: feature theory of German
[±stimmhaft], [±koronal] feature matrices
Distinctive feature analysis of German phonemes
Silbenstruktur und Phonotaktik
Syllable structure and phonotactics
max. onset, coda constraints
Permissible consonant clusters in German syllables
Auslautverhärtung: Optimalitätstheorie
Final devoicing: Optimality Theory
*VoicedCoda >> Ident(voice)
OT constraint ranking for final devoicing
Wortakzent: metrische Phonologie
Word stress: metrical phonology
trochaic foot, extrametricality
Metrical analysis of German stress assignment
Prosodie und Informationsstruktur
Prosody and information structure
nuclear accent placement marks focus
How pitch accent encodes given/new information
Diachrone Phonologie: Lautverschiebungen
Diachronic phonology: sound shifts
Zweite Lautverschiebung: t→ts/ss
High German consonant shift from Germanic
Umlaut: synchron und diachron
Umlaut: synchronic and diachronic
Gast→Gäste (i-umlaut origin)
Historical origin and modern function of umlaut
Phonologie der Lehnwörter
Phonology of loanwords
Garage [ʒ], Champignon [ʃ]
Integration of foreign phonemes into German
Sprechtempo und Reduktion
Speech rate and reduction
haben→ham, eine→ne in casual speech
Casual speech reduction processes
Soziophonetik: Standard vs Regiolekt
Sociophonetics: standard vs regiolect
prestige and stigma of variants
Social evaluation of phonological features