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...

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Main Authors: Wiese Richard, Orzechowska Paula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-09-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0030

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