On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates
- In this paper it is argued 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: | Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310208 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/175.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers in phonetics and phonology, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 49, S. 23-45 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2008 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Sprachtypologie; Aerodynamik; Sprachliche Universalien; Zischlaut; Stimmhaftigkeit; Stimmlosigkeit; Affrikata |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| First Page: | 23 |
| Last Page: | 45 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 378087592 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 49 = Papers in phonetics and phonology |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306925 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
