The seemingly contradictory influences of r on neighboring sounds in the early Germanic languages have fueled controversy over r’s articulation in Proto-Germanic and later dialects. In this paper, we examine a number of these early Germanic sound changes and compare their effects to those observed in recent phonetic studies of the coarticulation of different types of r on adjacent vowels. We conclude that an apical trill and a central approximant r are phonetically the most likely conditioners of the earliest Germanic sound changes, while later changes can be accounted for by rhotics which were phonetically related to these earlier articulations.
2023. The role of word recognition factors and lexical stress in the distribution of consonants in Spanish, English and Dutch. Journal of Linguistics 59:1 ► pp. 149 ff.
Kostakis, Andrew & Erin Noelliste
2022. The status of /w/ in Old High German. Folia Linguistica 56:s43-s1 ► pp. 169 ff.
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