The phonological status of Swedish au and eu: Proposals, evidence, evaluation

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Nordic Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-13 DOI:10.1017/s0332586522000233
Stig Eliasson
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Most modern studies of Swedish phonology take the view that the underlying vowel inventory of Central Standard Swedish comprises nine, rather than seventeen or eighteen, mutually contrasting vowel phonemes. A residual problem of a classic phonological type concerns the borrowed entities, rendered in traditional Swedish orthography as au and eu, whose ‘status in the vowel system is unclear’ (Riad 2014:42). The present paper scrutinizes earlier and current phonological interpretations of these entities, adduces evidence for and against each proposal, and concludes that the case for treating them as phonemic diphthongs /V͡V/, as /VC/-sequences, or as monosyllabic /VV̯/-sequences is weak and that they should in the first place be viewed as underlying heterosyllabic vowel sequences /VV/, subject to a special phonological stipulation valid for a borrowed sub-domain of the lexicon. Typologically, Central Standard Swedish should continue to be subsumed under the category of languages that lack phonological diphthongs.
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瑞典语au和eu的音系地位:建议、证据、评价
大多数现代瑞典音韵学研究认为,中央标准瑞典语的基本元音库存包括九个,而不是十七个或十八个,相互对照的元音音素。经典语音类型的残留问题涉及借用实体,在传统瑞典语正字法中呈现为au和eu,其“在元音系统中的地位不明确”(Riad 2014:42)。本文仔细研究了早期和当前对这些实体的音系解释,引证了支持和反对每一种说法的证据,并得出结论,将它们视为音位双元音/V /、/VC/-序列或单音节/VV/ -序列的情况是微弱的,它们首先应该被视为潜在的异音节元音序列/VV/,服从于一个特殊的音系规定,适用于借用的词汇子域。在类型学上,中央标准瑞典语应该继续被归入缺乏语音双元音的语言类别。
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