The Dialect of Metzenseifen as Spoken in Cleveland, Ohio

accusative adverbs allophone alta alta altn American English assimilation back vowels Bavarian bean bien bøa bysn clause Cleveland clusters compound conjugated dative declension development of MHG devoicing diminutive diphthongs fricatives front vowels Gedeon gender gəzẽ Gründner Hungarian immigrants indicative infinitive inflected initially kiex klã kland lengthening loan words long vowels Masc medially Metz Metzenseifen Metzenseifen dialect MHG Metz modals modifiers nasal vowels Neut neuter nixt non-finite verb Nouns of Plural Ober-Metzenseifen occurs onza onzan past participle past tense personal pronouns phonemes phonological plural ending plural form Plural Group possessive postvocalic predicate prefixes prepositions present tense pronominal adjectives Secondary Diphthongs short vowels shortening Silesian sing speakers Standard German stem stem-final consonant stem-vowel Stressed Vowels strong verbs subjunctive syllable Table third principal towns umlaut Unterzips usually Verner's Law vocalized voiced voiceless wërden xenk zãi zoln