Final Obstruent Voicing in Lakota: Phonetic Evidence and Phonological Implications
| Autor: | Juliette Blevins, Ander Egurtzegi, Jan Ullrich |
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| Přispěvatelé: | City University of New York [New York] (CUNY), Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lakota Language Consortium, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Laboratory phonology History rare sound patterns Contrast (statistics) 06 humanities and the arts Obstruent Language and Linguistics Linguistics final voicing final devoicing 03 medical and health sciences markedness 0302 clinical medicine Markedness laboratory phonology Siouan language 0602 languages and literature Voice [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Voicelessness Lakota |
| Zdroj: | Language Language, Linguistic Society of America, 2020, 96 (2), pp.294-337. ⟨10.1353/lan.2020.0022⟩ Language, 2020, 96 (2), pp.294-337. ⟨10.1353/lan.2020.0022⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0097-8507 1535-0665 |
| Popis: | International audience; Final obstruent devoicing is common in the world’s languages and constitutes a clear case of parallel phonological evolution. Final obstruent voicing, in contrast, is claimed to be rare or nonexistent. Two distinct theoretical approaches crystalize around obstruent voicing patterns. Traditional markedness accounts view these sound patterns as consequences of universal markedness constraints prohibiting voicing, or favoring voicelessness, in final position, and predict that final obstruent voicing does not exist. In contrast, phonetic-historical accounts explain skewed patterns of voicing in terms of common phonetically based devoicing tendencies, allowing for rare cases of final obstruent voicing under special conditions. In this article, phonetic and phonological evidence is offered for final obstruent voicing in Lakota, an indigenous Siouan language of the Great Plains of North America. In Lakota, oral stops /p/, /t/, and /k/ are regularly pronounced as [b], [l], and [ɡ] in word- and syllable-final position when phrase-final devoicing and preobstruent devoicing do not occur. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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