A Reexamination of the Feature [Sonorant]

The Status of 'Sonorant Obstruents

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2887622
AutoresKeren D Rice, Keren Rice (autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen69
Número2
Páginas308
Fecha de publicación1993-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/416536
OpenAlexW2000262941
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas40
Referencias citadas20

This paper argues for a feature called Sonorant Voice (SV), which replaces the traditional feature [sonorant]. It is underlyingly present in all sonorants and in obstruents that function as sonorants within a system. This feature differs from [sonorant] in several ways: (a) it defines the type of voicing present in sonorants, (b) it can be present in obstruents, and (c) it bears a special relationship to the feature Nasal in that a nasal consonant is the unmarked realization of a consonant with the feature SV. Two major kinds of evidence are given for SV. First, alternations between voiced stops and nasals in some languages suggest that the two are allophones (e.g. Southern Barasano, Slave) or form a natural class (Rotokas), a relationship that is captured through the feature SV. Second, cases in which voicing and a nasal surface in the same environment (e.g. Navajo, Irish) can be accounted for by the use of SV

Feature (linguistics) · Linguistics · Obstruent · Speech recognition · Voice · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation