TY  - JOUR
A1  - Żygis, Marzena
T1  - On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates
N2  - In this paper it is argued 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  - Zischlaut
KW  - Affrikata
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14186
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1151152
ER  -