TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Raffelsiefen, Renate A1 - Brinckmann, Caren ED - Trouvain, Jürgen ED - Barry, William J. T1 - Evaluating phonological status: significance of paradigm uniformity vs. prosodic grouping effects T2 - Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: ICPhS XVI, 6 - 10 August 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany N2 - A central concern of linguistic phonetics is to define criteria for determining the phonological status of sounds or sound properties observed in phonetic surface form. Based on acoustic measurements we show that the occurrence of syllabic sonorants vs. schwa-sonorant sequences in German is determined exclusively by segmental and prosodic structure, with no paradigm uniformity effects. We argue that these findings are consistent with a uniform representation of syllabic sonorants as schwa sonorant sequences in the lexicon. The stability of schwa in CVC-suffixes (e.g. the German diminutive suffix -chen), as opposed to its phonetic absence in a segmentally comparable underived context, is argued to be conditioned by the prosodic organisation of such suffixes external to the phonological word of the stem. KW - paradigm uniformity KW - phonological word KW - phonological status KW - German KW - schwa Y1 - 2007 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49088 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49088 SN - 978-3-9811535-1-4 SB - 978-3-9811535-1-4 SP - 1441 EP - 1444 PB - Universität des Saarlandes CY - Saarbrücken ER -