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.

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Author:Susanne Fuchs, Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND
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):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht