Featuring the most complete and up-to-date description of the phonology of German presently available, this book applies recent models of phonological theory, putting particular emphasis on the interaction of morphology and phonology. It focuses on the present-day standard language, but includes discussions of other variants and registers.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Phoneme System of German Chapter 3: The Prosodic Structure of German Chapter 4: Prosodic Morphology Chapter 5: Aspects of Lexical Phonology and Morphology Chapter 6: Underspecification: An analysis of markedness and defaults Chapter 7: Phonological Rules and Alternations Chapter 8: Word Stress, Compound Stress, Phrase Stress Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks