German dialects: phonology and morphology, with selected texts

3rd pers ähr Alem allophones assimilation back vowels Bruch closed syllables clusters consonantal consonants dative Datterich DECLENSION déi denkt dental dialect diphthongs DPhA East Low Saxon ending final position Foerste forms fortis geiht häd hett initial position isch ischt isogloss labial lengthening lenis Letter Phoneme Letter long vowels Low German Luxemburg masc medial and final mid-front vowel Mitzka monophthong Moselle Franconian Mundart Mundarten mutated Nääs nasal neuter North Saxon nouns nüd occurs palato-velar Phoneme Phoneme Letter Phoneme plural prefix pres pret pron PRONOUNS root-vowel Rückumlaut seggt short vowels shortening spelling stops and fricatives strong verbs suffix tense umlaut ümmer unstressed Vader velar voiced voiceless vowel deriving vowel quantity weak verbs wedder West Low Saxon Westphalian WGmc Wilm words Zürich