Bi‐Morphemic Virtual Length in Yiddish. (11th January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Faust, Noam
• Is Part Of: Studia linguistica. Volume 72:Number 3(2018:Dec.)
• Page Start: 608
• Page End: 624
• Publication Date: 2018-01-11
• Subjects: Language and languages -- Periodicals; 400
• DOI: 10.1111/stul.12082
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0039-3193

Abstract

Abstract: This paper examines three apparent exceptions to general processes in the phonology and morphology of standard Yiddish. These are 1) the resistance of several potentially syllabic final consonants to syllabication; 2) the insertion of an extra consonant [n] in some infinitives; and 3) the absence of some diminutive patterns from some nouns. All three cases are resolved by showing that some phonetically short segments are in fact underlyingly long ones, created by morpheme concatenation. The analysis, conducted within Strict CV (Lowenstamm 1996), thus argues for virtual, or "non surface‐true" length.