The phonetic motivation for phonological stop assibilation
- This article examines the motivation for phonological stop assibilations, e.g. /t/ is realized as [ts], [s] or [tʃ] before /i/, from the phonetic perspective. Hall & Hamann (2003) posit the following two implications: (a) Assibilation cannot be triggered by /i/ unless it is also triggered by /j/, and (b) Voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless voiceless ones do. In the following study we present the results of three acoustic experiments with native speakers of German and Polish which support implications (a) and (b). In our experiments we measured the friction phase after the /t d/ release before the onset of the following high front vocoid for four speakers of German and Polish. We found that the friction phase for /tj/ was significantly longer than that of /ti/, and that the friction phase of /t/ in the assibilation context is significantly longer than that of /d/.
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| Author: | Tracy Alan Hall, Silke HamannORCiDGND, Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309206 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/192.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers in phonetics and phonology / editors Susanne Fuchs and Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 37 |
| 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: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Kontrastive Grammatik; Akustische Spektrographie; Kontrastive Phonetik; Verschlusslaut; Kontrastive Phonologie; Affrikata; Deutsch; Polnisch |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Page Number: | 33 |
| First Page: | 187 |
| Last Page: | 219 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381257851 |
| 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 37 = Papers in Phonetics and Phonology |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306799 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
