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120 Bogus clusters, syllabic consonants and vowel syncope. . .ly but a sequence of onsets separated by the empty nucleus word-internally.In order to prove her point, i.e. that the forms in (11) are bogusclusters, Brockhaus (1995:194) provides additional examples of thevowel-zero alternations (13).(13)BibelZwiebelKübelübelbügelnregeln[ ® bi:b«l][ ® tsviÉb«l][ ® kyÉb«l][ ® /yÉb«l][ ® byÉg«ln][ ® reÉg«ln]‘Bible’‘onion’‘vat’‘bad’‘iron’‘regulate’ebenSegenRegeneigenschmuggelnKugel[ ® /eÉb«n][ ® zeÉg«n][ ® reÉg«n][ ® /aIg«n][ ® SmUg«ln][ ® kuÉg«l]‘level’ (adj.)‘blessing’‘rain’‘own’‘smuggle’‘ball’The conclusion at which she arrives, therefore, is that word-medial obstruentplus sonorant clusters in (11) are separated by the alternatingvowel which surfaces in related forms (13). In other words, the underivedforms of the stems in (13) indicate that all the clusters in (11) aboveare in fact bogus clusters — they are separated by the empty nuclear position.Moreover, Brockhaus (1995) captures the difference betweenthe dialects in (11) by claiming that in NSG both final and medialempty nuclei can trigger obstruent devoicing, while in Hochlautung onlyfinal empty nuclei are able to devoice the preceding obstruent. Since ourmain concern in this chapter is the representation of bogus clusters andnot FOD, we shall refer to the latter phenomenon only sporadically. Forthe analysis of FOD in German see Rubach (1990), W iese (1991),Hall (1992), Brockhaus (1995). Finally, it should be noted that in(13), just as in (12) above, the schwa can be replaced by the syllabic consonantin rapid speech. Another problem Brockhaus (1995) addressesin her analysis and which is of particular interest to us is the appearanceof obstruent plus nasal clusters word-initially. To put it differently,if such combinations are claimed to be bogus clusters word-internally,what is then the representation of the same clusters in the wordinitialposition (14). 1111The list in (14) is quoted after Brockhaus (1995:194) who additionally incorporatesword-initial [pn] and [sl] clusters into this set.