Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: A representational approach
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in the north of Italy: a representational approach
In this paper I present a novel approach to the phenomenon of length-related “final devoicing” in the Romance varieties of northern Italy. I propose a representational account of the facts, deriving vowel lengthening from the interplay of constraints regulating word-final delaryngealization and weight-by-position constraints targeting only laryngeally specified obstruents. As Repetti (1992) sho...
متن کاملLength and voicing in Friulian and Milanese Or why rule-free derivations are needed
This paper claims that phonology should express the relationship between vowel length and obstruent voicing operationally rather than in parallel. The empirical focus in on Friulian and Milanese. The distribution of vowel length in Friulian is predictable from the underlying laryngeal specification of obstruents. Stressed vowels are long before underlyingly voiced word-final obstruents although...
متن کاملFactors affecting utterance-final vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese
Investigation of spontaneous speech corpora has shown that vowel devoicing in Japanese is a statistical phenomena. However, factors behind vowel devoicing have not been fully studied. In addition, there have been no studies that specifically examined pre-pausal vowel devoicing. In this paper, we investigate vowel devoicing in the pre-pausal position, in particular, vowel devoicing occurring at ...
متن کاملVowel Devoicing in Tokyo Japanese
This paper proposes a phonological analysis for vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese using the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993). Generally speaking, in Japanese the high vowels /i, u/ are devoiced when they occur between two voiceless consonants. However, there are some contexts where such a simple generalization does not hold, e.g., so called “word-final devoicing” and ...
متن کاملVowel devoicing/deletion in English and German*
This paper presents and discusses data on vowel devoicing in English from Ph.D. research being carried out under Sarah Hawkins at Cambridge, and more recently with Klaus Kohler at the Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung in Kiel; and data on vowel deletion in German from the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (IPDS 1995, 1996) reported most recently by Pétur Helgason and Klaus K...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Lingua
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0024-3841
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.03.004