A phonetically based account of phonological stop assibilation  

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Kim, Hyunsoon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 81-108.
Fulltext: Kim_Hyunsoon.pdf (760.31KB)

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This paper proposes a phonetically based account of phonological stop assibilation. We ®rst review evidence for the phonological representation of sibilants proposed by Jakobson et al. (1951) and others. An examination of cross-linguistic data involving phonological assibilation reveals two asymmetries: (a) only high vocoids constitute assibilation triggers ; (b) only following vocoids, not preceding vocoids, constitute assibilation triggers. It is then shown that high vocoidconditioned phonological stop assibilation is motivated by the brief period of turbulence that sometimes occurs at the release of a plosive into a high vocoid. We argue that this turbulence is interpreted in phonology as the insertion of the feature [­strident] into the representation of the plosive, with the loss of the feature [®continuant] in the case of frication. Not only does this phonetic analysis explain the phonetic origin of assibilation, it also correctly re¯ects the crosslinguistic conditions on high vocoid-conditioned phonological assibilation.

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