Why are voiced affricates avoided cross-linguistically? : evidence from an aerodynamic study
- 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.
Author: | Susanne Fuchs, Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1149867 |
URL: | http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-100.pdf |
Parent Title (German): | Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production |
Publisher: | Institute de phonetique |
Place of publication: | Strasbourg |
Editor: | Rudolph Sock, Susanne Fuchs, Yves Laprie |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2008 |
Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/04/20 |
GND Keyword: | Phonetik; Affrikata |
Page Number: | 4 |
First Page: | 425 |
Last Page: | 428 |
Source: | http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-100.pdf ; (in:) Rudolph Sock, Susanne Fuchs, Yves Laprie: Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production. - Strasbourg: Institute de phonetique, 2008, S. 425-428 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 224873784 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |