Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size SUMMARY This paper deals with two aspects of Pennsylvania Dutch. The first section outlines the sociocultural features of Amish society within which Pennsylvania Dutch is spoken. The second section gives an outline of the phonotactic patterning of the initial and final consonants used in Pennsylvania Dutch. The conclusions presented here are based on an analysis of spoken language recorded by the author in Lancaster County PA in 1985, and on recordings of Pennsylvania Dutch listener participation radio, programs. Information has also been cross checked in or derived from a number of traditional grammars of Pennsylvania Dutch. This phonotactic analysis focuses on the permissible consonants and consonant clusters which are used in the syllable initial and syllable final positions of Pennsylvania Dutch. Some attention has also been given to instances of phonetic variation and to a number of processes such as na-za1ization, apocope and cluster simplification that distort the phonotactic mirror image symmetry of initial and final consonants and clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch. The data base in hand however did not permit a quantitative analysis of such variation or processes. Neither has the effect of American English on Pennsylvania Dutch been analized in this paper.
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