Hierarchies and phonological weakening

Escure, Geneviève

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“…Many answers have been offered and there is a large literature on the topic, including, for example, Lass & Anderson (1975), Lass (1976), Foley (1977), Escure (1977), Lass (1984), Dressler (1985), Anderson & Ewen (1987), Bauer (1988), Harris (1990Harris ( , 1994, Kirchner (1998), Se Âge Âral & Scheer (1999, Lavoie (2001). Many answers have been offered and there is a large literature on the topic, including, for example, Lass & Anderson (1975), Lass (1976), Foley (1977), Escure (1977), Lass (1984), Dressler (1985), Anderson & Ewen (1987), Bauer (1988), Harris (1990Harris ( , 1994, Kirchner (1998), Se Âge Âral & Scheer (1999, Lavoie (2001).…”

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Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English

Honeybone

2001

English Language and Linguistics

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This article integrates aspects of synchronic and diachronic phonological theory with points relevant to the study of a nonreference accent in order to investigate the patterns of consonantal lenition found in the variety of English spoken in Liverpool, England. Points of contact with variationist approaches are addressed, partly because the lenitions are variable processes. An implicational understanding of lenition is developed, thanks to which it is possible to describe the prosodic and melodic environments which inhibit the lenitions. New data from a small corpus investigation into Liverpool English are presented and a theoretical and practical methodology is proposed, which enables the data to be investigated. The descriptive focus is on the segments /t/ and /k/, which are typically realized as affricates or fricatives unless the lenition is inhibited. A notion of`melodic lenition inhibition' is developed to account for some of the inhibitory patterns, whereby the sharing of autosegmental phonological elements gives a segment strength' in certain environments.English Language and Linguistics 5.2: 213±249. # Cambridge University Press 2001

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Section: What Is Lenition?mentioning

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Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English

Honeybone

2001

English Language and Linguistics

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“…The Sequence Sonority Principle (SSP) (Clements, 1990) The sonority of a phoneme can be regarded as "its loudness relative to that of other sounds with the same length, stress, and pitch" (Ladefoged, 1975). The sonority is given by a concept called strength (Escure, 1977), on one side strength can be represented by the sonorance in which the phonemes are ordered by their acoustic energy: Stops → Fricatives → Nasals → Liquids → Glides → Vowels. On the other side, the scale can be represented by the articulatory resistance (Anderson and Ewen, 1987) of the phonemes as in Figure 3.…”

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On the syllabic structures of Aromanian

Nisioi¹

2014

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH)

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In this paper we have investigated the syllabic structures found in Aromanian a Romance language spoken in the Balkans across multiple countries with important communities which spread from Greece to Romania. We have created a dictionary of syllabified words and analyzed a few general quantitative and phonological aspects of the dictionary. Furthermore, we have approached the syllabic complexities, the sonority patterns present in the syllable's constituents and the degree in which the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) holds for this language. Based on all the information gathered we have devised an automatic syllabification algorithm which has a 99% accuracy on the words in the dictionary. In this way we hope to extend the existing phonological studies on Eastern Romance and to spread and preserve meta-linguistic information on this endangered language.

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“…El concepto de fortalecimiento (hardening/fortition) ha sido objeto de extenso debate en la literatura (Escure 1977, Kirchner 1998, Lavoie 2001, Vijayakrishnan 2003, Brandão de Carvalho, Scheer & Ségéral 2008. Generalmente se asume que el fortalecimiento fonológico de un segmento se opone al proceso de debilitamiento (lenition).…”

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“…En este sentido, se ha postulado que cierto tipo de segmentos son fuertes por su propia naturaleza y/o que ciertos contextos fonológicos son fuertes. El efecto de la posición en la palabra fue discutido por Escure (1977), quien sostiene que hay una jerarquía de posiciones débiles desde arriba (la más débil) hacia abajo (la más fuerte).…”

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La ambigüedad fonológica de los segmentos complejos:

Gutiérrez

2014

LIAMES: Ling. Indig. Am.

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La ambigüedad fonológica de los segmentos complejos: El caso de la consonante nivaĉle k ͡ l * AbstrAct: The goal of this paper is to contribute to the phonological understanding of the Nivaĉle (Matacoan) complex segment [k ͡ l]. This sound is interesting from both typological and theoretical perspectives in that: (a) to my knowledge, it is not attested in other indigenous South American languages, (b) it is a non-homorganic affricate that has two articulators: dorsal and coronal (Stell 1989: 58), and (c) a sonorant lateral /l/ is absent from the Nivaĉle phonological inventory -the other lateral in the language is the fricative lateral /ɬ/. was historically an underlying /l/ that underwent fortition in a prosodically strong position such as onsets. On the other hand, the fact that [k ͡ l] delateralizes to [k] in coda position, and not to [l], suggests that the synchronic underlying representation is /k ͡ l/. The diachronic development and the synchronic representation of this segment both underlyingly and in its surface representation, will be thus investigated and explained. keywords: Complex segments; Lateral hardening; Nivaĉle.resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el comportamiento fonológico del segmento complejo [k ͡ l] en la lengua nivaĉle (mataco-mataguaya). Este sonido presenta interesantes particularidades tipológicas y teóricas ya que: (a) en lo que a mi conocimiento respecta, la [k ͡ l] no está presente en otras lenguas indígenas de América del Sur, (b) esta consonante es una africada no-homorgánica que tiene dos articuladores: dorsal y coronal (Stell 1989:58) y (c) no hay una sonorante lateral en el inventario fonológico de la lengua nivaĉle -la otra consonante lateral es la lateral fricativa sorda [ɬ]. Los datos comparativos sugieren que la consonante nivaĉle [k ͡ l] corresponde a la sonorante lateral [l] en otras lenguas mataco-mataguayas (chorote, maká y wichí). Con respecto a las propiedades distribucionales de la consonante [k ͡ l], ésta sólo ocurre en posición de ataque; en posición de coda aparece como una [k]. Por un lado, planteo la hipótesis que la [k ͡ l] es el resultado diacrónico de un proceso fonológico de fortalecimiento (fortition/hardening) de la sonorante lateral [l] en una posición prosódica fuerte, como es el ataque. Por otro lado, el hecho que [k ͡ l] delateraliza y emerge como [k], y no como [l] en posición de coda, pareciera demostrar que su representación sincrónica subyacente es /k ͡ l/. Este trabajo, entonces, espera contribuir a la descripción y comprensión de la fonología nivaĉle tanto a nivel segmental como prosódico. pAlAbrAs clAve: Segmentos complejos; Fortalecimiento de laterales; Nivaĉle.* Agradezco muy especialmente a Sara Rojas Núñez ( †) y Félix Ramírez Flores por proporcionarme los datos nivaĉle utilizados en este artículo y por enseñarme su lengua con paciencia y generosidad. Asimismo agradezco a Patricia A. Shaw y Gunnar Hansson por sus comentarios y sugerencias. El trabajo de campo para esta investigación fue financiado mediante una beca de Jacobs Re...

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Hierarchies and phonological weakening

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Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English

Lenition inhibition in Liverpool English

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