Geminate Inalterability and Lenition

Kirchner, Robert

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“…The chart abstracts away from a number of details, like voicing or place of articulation. Some languages allow only voiceless geminates (Kirchner 2000); in nasal + plosive clusters a voiced plosive is less marked, while in liquid + plosive, and especially obstruent + plosive clusters voiceless plosives occur more frequently. Place of articulation also lends some excitement to such a scale, but considering the simplest cases is enough for our present purposes.…”

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The markedness of the unmarked

Szigetvári¹

2006

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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There are several phonological categories whose markedness -as inferred from typical markedness metrics-fails to match the representational complexity posited for them. More specifically, glottal stops, geminate clusters, and onsetless syllables are representationally the simplest of their category, yet other criteria, like implicational hierarchies, mark them as special. This paper aims at comprehending this paradox.

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The markedness of the unmarked

Szigetvári¹

2006

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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“…Clements 2009 for recent discussion), it is difficult to find a phonetically grounded definition of lenition that accommodates /t/-affrication as we observe it in our data. The relative lengthening and strengthening of the release phase seem incompatible with a weakening of overall articulatory effort, however the latter is quantified (Kirchner 2000(Kirchner , 2001a. Compared with aspirated instances, affricated ones also show a greater overall degree of obstruction to airflow: they involve a complete closure and a clearly audible transient burst, followed by oral as opposed to -or in addition to -glottal frication.…”

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Lenition, fortition and the status of plosive affrication: the case of spontaneous RP English/t/

Buizza

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2012

Phonology

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This paper reports on a phonetic and phonological study of /t/-affrication in spontaneous British English Received Pronunciation. The study is motivated by the uncertainty surrounding plosive affrication in the literature on lenition and fortition. We suggest that a decision as to the status of a given pattern involving affrication in terms of lenition or fortition should be based on thorough phonetic and phonological analysis. We present a phonetic and phonological account of /t/-affrication, which takes into consideration the temporal and spectral characteristics of the sounds involved, as well as their distribution across phonological environments. Crucially, we compare affricated instances of /t/ with aspirated and fricated ones in the same dataset -the former arguably unmarked in this variety, the latter uncontroversially the result of lenition. We argue that the phonetic and phonological characteristics of /t/-affrication presented in this paper are consistent with an account in terms of fortition rather than lenition.

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“…Nous adoptons l'approche autosegmentale (Goldsmith 1990) et celle de la phonologie articulatoire (Browman et Goldstein 1992) pour représenter la gémination. Enfi n, pour l'analyse de la variation des formes de C+j+V, nous utilisons les méthodes de la TO (Keer 1999, Kirchner 2000.…”

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“…Et d'une manière encore plus générale, d'où vient la variation? Nous croyons qu'il est possible de répondre à ces questions à l'aide de la TO, où l'assimilation est considérée comme «effort-based lenition», et qu'il est possible d'en rendre compte à l'aide de la contrainte LAZY (Kirchner 2000). …”

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“…Pour ce qui est de la gémination en phonologie générative, c'est l'étude des géminées sous-jacentes qui prévaut (Keer 1999, Kirchner 2000. Étant donné que la gémination de surface dans le contexte C'+j n'est propre qu'aux trois langues mentionnées plus haut, elle reste peu étudiée, exception faite des travaux dialectologiques descriptifs de ce phénomène (p. ex.…”

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Gémination de surface dans des dialectes biélorusses et russes

Kaminskaïa

2004

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La géométrie des traits, l’approche autosegmentale et la phonologie articulatoire, de même que la théorie de l’optimalité permettent de rendre compte de certaines différences dialectales dans des parlers biélorusses et russes. Les variables étudiées sont les formes du groupe étymologique consonne + jod + voyelle, qui peuvent contenir une consonne palatalisée, simple ou géminée. Parmi les problèmes soulevés par les données, on trouve la gémination de surface, le rapport entre la palatalisation et la gémination, la raison de la variation des formes de C + j + V et leurs possibilités de combinaison limitées.Feature Geometry together with an Autosegmental approach, Articulatory Phonology, and OT allow us to account for some dialectal differences between varieties of Byelorussian and Russian. The variables studied here are the forms of etymological combination consonant + jod + vowel that include a simple or geminate palatalized consonant. The data raise such questions as how to account for surface geminates, how palatalization and gemination are related, why C + j + V varies in its forms, and why these forms can coexist in limited combinations

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Geminate Inalterability and Lenition

Cited by 87 publications

References 59 publications

The markedness of the unmarked

The markedness of the unmarked

Lenition, fortition and the status of plosive affrication: the case of spontaneous RP English/t/

Gémination de surface dans des dialectes biélorusses et russes

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