The Status of Nasalized Continuants

Cohn, Abigail C.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-360380-7.50016-8

Cited by 55 publications

(44 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This assumption seems to be present, at least implicitly, in most accounts of the phonemic glides, and it is also compatible with the phonetic properties of phonemic glides discussed by Cohn (1990Cohn ( , 1993. There is also no clear evidence of a sonority difference between phonemic glides and vocalic margins.…”

Section: The Representation and Sonority Of Washo Glidessupporting

confidence: 71%

Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory

Staroverov

2016

Open Linguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article presents an argument for the idea that consonants of high sonority are preferred over low-sonority consonants between vowels (Uffmann 2007). The argument is based on a detailed description and analysis of the phonological patterns which ensure that a syllable starts with a consonant in Washo. Washo inserts [j], which is of high sonority, between any two vowels. Word-initially however a glottal stop is inserted. It is argued that the Washo insertion patterns show influence of the sonority requirements, and these patterns are not subject to an analysis in terms of autosegmental spreading. Thus although feature spreading is a useful tool for capturing similarity requirements on neighboring segments, it is not sufficient to account for cases like Washo epenthesis.

show abstract

Section: The Representation and Sonority Of Washo Glidessupporting

confidence: 71%

Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory

Staroverov

2016

Open Linguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The analysis necessarily requires that seemingly transparent obstruents actually undergo nasal harmony in the phonology. See Walker (1995) for a proposed means of reconciling the phonological result with the well-documented phonetic incompatibility of nasality and obstruency discussed in Ohala (1975), Ohala & Ohala (1993) and Cohn (1993). Other analyses of Guaraní are possible if strict locality is abandoned.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Positional Faithfulness

Beckman¹

2013

101

167

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…[m, n, N]. Across inventories, these are unquestionably the most widely attested nasal segments Maddieson 1984;Pulleyblank 1989;Cohn 1993a). Nasality is intrinsic to the harmonic nature of these segments; in fact, it is not clear that this sort of sonorant stop ever occurs without [+nasal] (but see Piggott 1992; Rice 1993 for some suggested instances).…”

Section: 1mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The two hierarchies thus cannot be fully equated. 9 Cohn (1993a) notes, however, that sonority plays a role in determining the compatibility of nasalization with continuants. I suggest that the similarity in the scales stems from the sonority and nasalization hierarchies having an overlapping basis in perceptibility.…”

Section: 1mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here it seems that perceptibility of nasalization is enhanced by greater sonority, hence the overlap in the two hierarchies. 10 Overall, it is both articulatory/aerodynamic and acoustic/perceptual factors that contribute to the basis for the nasalization hierarchy, as noted by Cohn (1993a). For example, it is difficult to produce an audibly nasalized fricative because such a sound segment has articulatory/aerodynamic and acoustic/perceptual demands that are hard to satisfy at the same time.…”

Section: 1mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation