Open tone syllable

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In linguistics, the term open tone syllable occasionally denotes a stressed syllable whose end margin is empty, i.e. which ends with a vowel (examples: wo [voː], Ra-be [ˈʀaː.bə]). Closed tone syllables, on the other hand, have a consonant end margin ( Mu s -ter [ˈmʊ s .tɐ]). The term "tone syllable" is not very common; most authors only speak of an “open syllable” and implicitly assume that the main syllable of a word is meant.

What is referred to here as a “tone syllable” is identical to the prominent syllable of Trochaic German hereditary , loan or foreign words . The morphological counterpart of the “tone syllable” is the root of the word , which, however, often has a different end margin than the prominent syllable (phonetically: trin-ken [ˈtʀɪŋ.kn̩]; morphologically: trink-en ). The root of the word can be supplemented by affixes , and the term "tone syllable" is intended to express that affix syllables are not meant. However, the meaningfulness of the term “tone syllable” is impaired by the fact that many words do not correspond to the scheme “tone syllable + affix (e)”. This is especially true for compound words (e.g. wie-so ) and for foreign words ( Ka-rus-sell ), but occasionally even for German hereditary words ( Al-mo-sen ).

For linguistics, open dominant syllables in Trochaic hereditary words are of interest because the vowel , which forms its core , has been spoken for a long time since the New High German period . Long vowels only appear sporadically in unstressed and closed syllables .

Web links

Wiktionary: Tone syllable  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Thordis Hennings: Introduction to Middle High German . 3. Edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025958-2 , pp. 35 . ( limited online version in Google Book Search)