Splitting ‘intervocalic’

Expanding the typology of lenition environments

Bibliographic Data

ID19494837
AuthorsKatalin Balogné Bérces (0000-0002-7251-3839, Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Katalin Bérces, Patrick Honeybone
Year2012
Volume59
Issue1-2
Pages27-48
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Linguistica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-8076 • E-ISSN: 1588-2624
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/aling.59.2012.1-2.2
OpenAlexW2162740875
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited16

The basic types of lenition environments (‘initial’, ‘intervocalic’, ‘final’) need to be separately evaluated as they differ along parameters like word position (e.g., pre-consonantal vs. final codas) or stress relations. This paper argues that we need to recognise an additional such parameter: the length of the vowel preceding an intervocalic consonant. We show that a number of phenomena from varieties of English and German show lenition patterns which draw a distinction between reflexes found in post-short (vc) and post-long (vvc) environments. The theoretical consequence of our observations is that phonological theory needs to be able to account for the post-short vs. post-long distinction in the form of a parametrically-determined representational difference

Consonant · German · Linguistics · Typology · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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