TY  - CONF
A1  - Fuchs, Susanne
A1  - Żygis, Marzena
A2  - Sock, Rudolph
A2  - Fuchs, Susanne
A2  - Laprie, Yves
T1  - Why are voiced affricates avoided cross-linguistically? : evidence from an aerodynamic study
T2  - Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production
N2  - This paper shows that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic characteristics. On the basis of experimental evidence it is shown that conflicting air pressure requirements for maintaining voicing and frication are responsible for the avoidance of voiced affricates. In particular, the air pressure released from the stop phase of the affricate is too high to maintain voicing, which in consequence leads to a devoicing of the frication part.
KW  - Phonetik
KW  - Affrikata
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14083
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1149867
UR  - http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-100.pdf
SP  - 425
EP  - 428
PB  - Institute de phonetique
CY  - Strasbourg
ER  -