Open AccessHistorical */s/ in Preconsonantal Position in the German Minority Language of Sauris/Zahre in North-Eastern Italy
Author(s) -
Barbara Vogt
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
annali di ca' foscari. serie occidentale
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2499-2232
pISSN - 2499-1562
DOI - 10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2022/10/002
Subject(s) - german , position (finance) , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , history , realization (probability) , geography , archaeology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , mathematics , finance , economics , statistics
In this paper aspects of the sibilant system in the variety spoken in the Germanic language island Sauris/Zahre in north-eastern Italy are presented. I investigate whether an intermediate, postalveolar “shibilant” (from Protogermanic */s/) in preconsonantal position is preserved from Middle High German as observed in other German minority languages in northern Italy. In Sauris/Zahre, in preconsonantal position a postalveolar realization is sometimes mentioned in literature, while in Modern Standard German and most related varieties in this position historical, postalveolar */s/ is retracted to palatoalveolar /ʃ/.