Structure and usage do not explain each other: an analysis of German word-initial clusters
The present study focuses on German word-initial consonant clusters and asks whether feature-based phonotactic preferences correlate with patterns of type and token frequencies in present-day usage. The corpus-based analyses are based on a comprehensive list of such clusters, representing current us...
Main Authors: | Wiese Richard, Orzechowska Paula |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-09-01
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Series: | Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0030 |
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