Retroflexion and retraction revised
- Arguing against Bhat’s (1974) claim that retroflexion cannot be correlated with retraction, the present article illustrates that retroflexes are always retracted, though retraction is not claimed to be a sufficient criterion for retroflexion. The cooccurrence of retraction with retroflexion is shown to make two further implications; first, that non-velarized retroflexes do not exist, and second, that secondary palatalization of retroflexes is phonetically impossible. The process of palatalization is shown to trigger a change in the primary place of articulation to non-retroflex. Phonologically, retraction has to be represented by the feature specification [+back] for all retroflex segments.
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| Author: | Silke HamannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308375 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp28/zaspil28-hamann.pdf |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin; ZAS papers in linguistics ; Vol. 28 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Retroflex; Phonologie; Phonetik |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| First Page: | 13 |
| Last Page: | 25 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 385073828 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 28 = Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306694 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
