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A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 248] 2019
► pp. 31–68

Chapter 2
Phonology

Article outline
  • 2.1Tressmann’s spelling
  • 2.2Synchronic aspects: consonant inventory
    • 2.2.1Obstruents [bpdtɡk], and [ɦ] vs [ʔ]
    • 2.2.2Fricatives [fwszʃʒxɣ]
    • 2.2.3Nasals [n/m/ŋ/ŋk]
    • 2.2.4Liquids [r/l]
    • 2.2.5Vowels
      • 2.2.5.1Length
      • 2.2.5.2Overlength
    • 2.2.6Umlaut or vowel mutation
  • 2.3Historical phonology
    • 2.3.1Vowels
      • 2.3.1.1Heavy roots
      • 2.3.1.2Schwa and ‑(ə)n
      • 2.3.1.3Breaking of long complex vowels
    • 2.3.2Consonants
      • 2.3.2.1Coda /r/ and onset /r/
      • 2.3.2.2Intervocalic rhotacism /d/ → /r/
        • 2.3.2.3Intervocalic /d/-clusters
        • 2.3.2.4Other consonants
          • 2.3.2.4.1ks → ss and sk → ʃ
          • 2.3.2.4.2Pomeranian glide velarization ‑w/-j → ‑g
          • 2.3.2.4.3Intervocalic voicing /t/ → /d/
        • 2.3.2.5Velarisation of root final /f/ >/g/
        • 2.3.2.6Nasal spirant law
      • 2.3.3Palatalization
      • 2.3.4Affrication
      • 2.3.5Unrounding
      • 2.3.6Debuccalization (deletion of [place])
      • 2.3.7Complex breaking of short vowels
      • 2.3.8Intervocalic voicing
      • 2.3.9Final devoicing
      • 2.3.10Degemination
    • 2.4Monophthongization
    • 2.5Assimilation
    • 2.6Catalexis of final suffixal (ə) and (n)
    • 2.7Vowel breaking
    • 2.8Epenthetic schwa
    • 2.9On the alternation /ui/ ~ /öi/
    • 2.10Contact speech and community mixing
  • Notes