A statistical exploration of the effects of phoneme class contacts in German noun-noun compounds
- This working paper describes a study that explores phoneme contact preferences in German noun-noun compounds with statistical methods on the basis of a large dataset (over 707.000 compounds). The following hypotheses are tested based on surprisal values: 1) vowel contacts are avoided -> confirmed; 2) contacts of phonemes from the same phoneme class are avoided -> not confirmed; 3) contacts where a phoneme with higher sonority is followed by a phoneme with lower sonority are avoided (syllable contact law) -> largely confirmed.
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| Author: | Annelen BrunnerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-134997 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17121200 |
| Publisher: | Zenodo |
| Place of publication: | Genf |
| Contributor(s): | Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND, Katrin HeinGND, Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2025 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/10/10 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | Statistical exploration Noun-noun compounds; Phoneme classes |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Nomen; Phonem |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 20 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |