“…This article addresses regional differences between syllable structures of different German dialects. While syllable structure of Standard German has been subject of extensive research (see Menzerath 1954, Seiler 1962, Wiese 1988, Ortmann 1991, Hall 1992, Kohler 1995, Wiese 2000, Best 2013, Levickij 2014 among many others), very few studies are dedicated to-usually very specific aspects of-regional phonotactics (for example, Karch 1981, Liberman 1997, Spiekermann 2000, Kraehenmann 2003, Hall 2009, Seiler & Würth 2014, Kleber 2017, Klingler, Moosmüller & Scheutz 2017, Caro Reina 2019. A comparative examination of the phonotactic particularities of individual dialect areas is sadly lacking.…”