TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hall, Tracy Alan
A1  - Hamann, Silke
T1  - Towards a typology of stop assibilation
N2  - 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.
KW  - Zischlaut
Y1  - 2003
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12465
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1133622
UR  - http://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~hamann/HallHamann2003.pdf
ER  -