TY  - CHAP
A1  - Żygis, Marzena
T1  - On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates
T2  - Papers in phonetics and phonology, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin;  ZASPil  Vol. 49, S. 23-45
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  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Aerodynamik
KW  - Sprachliche Universalien
KW  - Zischlaut
KW  - Stimmhaftigkeit
KW  - Stimmlosigkeit
KW  - Affrikata
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31020
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310208
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/175.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 49
SP  - 23
EP  - 45
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -