Enhanced Template

The following enhanced template for a German monosyllable is proposed in Kohler (1977:178):

• This goes further than the generalisation in terms of consonants and vowels in that the consonants (C) are divided into classes:
  • C - plosives and fricatives,
  • C - nasals, the lateral and //
  • C containing /h/.
• Enhanced templates are not restrictive enough in that, despite these constraints, they also overgeneralise.
• Additional constraints as to which members of a particular class are excluded in certain positions are often provided as text in statements to the effect that all consonants of the classes C and C can occur prevocalically except // (cf. for example, Kohler, 1977:179).