On maintaining and extending contrasts: Notker's Anlautgesetz
Native speakers deal with their phonological system without any knowledge of a lost contrast. To avoid neutralisations, speakers can only make use of their present phonological system of contrasts. Speakers of Old Alemannic (the dialect of Notker der Deutsche) had no contrast in voicing or fortis/le...
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Blackwell Publishing
2004
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