Towards a typology of stop assibilation

  • In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless voiceless ones do. The article presents typological evidence from assibilations in 45 languages supporting both (i) and (ii). It is argued that assibilations are to be captured in the Optimality Theoretic framework by ranking markedness constraints grounded in perception which penalize sequences like [ti] ahead of a faith constraint which militates against the change from /t/ to some sibilant sound. The occurring language types predicted by (i) and (ii) will be shown to involve permutations of the rankings between several different markedness constraints and the one faith constraint. The article demonstrates that there exist several logically possible assibilation types which are ruled out because they would involve illicit rankings.

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Author:Tracy Alan Hall, Silke HamannORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308644
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/196.html?&L=0
ISSN:1435-9588
ISSN:0947-7055
Parent Title (English):Papers in phonology & phonetics / ed. by T. A. Hall & Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 32
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:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/11/14
GND Keyword:Phonologie; Konsonant; Phonem; Optimalitätstheorie
Volume:32
Page Number:26
First Page:111
Last Page:136
HeBIS-PPN:381234029
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 414 Phonologie, Phonetik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 32 = Papers in Phonology & Phonetics
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306738
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht