%0 Journal Article %A Hall, T. Alan %T The analysis of Westphalian German Spirantization %D 2014 %J Diachronica %V 31 %N 2 %P 223-266 %@ 0176-4225 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.31.2.03hal %K hiatus %K glide %K coronal %K spirantization %K constraints %K Westphalian German %K repair strategies %K Germanic %K velarization %I John Benjamins %X Westphalian German Spirantization refers to the change from an original prevocalic long vowel to the corresponding short vowel plus fricative (i.e. [ɣ]). For example, the [ɪɣ] sequence in the Westphalian word [klɪɣə] “bran” derived historically from [iː]. The present article offers a new treatment for the historical shift from [iː] to [ɪɣ] — as well as similar ones involving other vowels — which breaks the process down into five separate changes. It is argued that each of these changes modified non-linear representations involving syllables, moras and segmental features. A crucial component of the proposed analysis is that each of the five changes is seen as a repair to a constraint. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.31.2.03hal