The Status of Phonetic Rarities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2888080
AutoresPeter Ladefoged, Daniel L Everett (0000-0002-3727-8765), Daniel Everett
Año1996
Volumen72
Número4
Páginas794
Fecha de publicación1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/416103
OpenAlexW2066026993
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas2

Most sounds can be described in terms of a standard set of phonological features, or in terms of values of well-known phonetic parameters. But some languages, particularly the smaller endangered languages of the world, also contain many unusual sounds that test our traditional descriptive theories. An example is the dental plosive followed by a bilabial trill, found in the Chapakuran languages. We suggest that there is a set (with fuzzy boundaries) of more common sounds that participate in a wide range of general linguistic processes and another set of rarer sounds that have been observed in only one or two languages

Linguistics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis