Postalveolar fricatives in Slavic languages as retroflexes
The present study poses the question on what phonetic and phonological grounds postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analyzed as retroflex and whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well. Velarization and incompatibility with front vowels are introduced as articulatory criteria for retroflexion, based on crosslinguistic data. According to these criteria, Polish and Russian have retroflex fricatives, whereas Bulgarian and Czech do not. In a phonological representation of these Slavic retroflexes, the necessity of perceptual features is shown. Lastly, it is illustrated that palatalization of retroflex fricatives both in Slavic languages and more generally causes a phonetic and phonological change to a non-retroflex sound.
| Author: | Silke Hamann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1133996 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 12.10.2009 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Phonetik ; Retroflex |
| Source: | http://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~hamann/Hamann2002SlavicRet.pdf ; (in:) Sergio Baauw, Mike Huiskes, Maaike Schoorlemmer: OTS Yearbook . - Utrecht: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, 2002, S. 105-127 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 219390126 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
